The Director and the Jedi (2018)

Rian Johnson: Self

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• Rian Johnson : [about Mark Hamill]  I don't think he ever got to the point where thought, "okay, I understand why Luke has to go at the end of this," but he was completely devoted to making what I had written the most powerful version it can possibly be on the screen. I'll always be dazzled by the fact that he had the generosity of spirit to do that, and I'll always feel like I really, really owe him for that. You know, I don't take that lightly.

• Rian Johnson : So, my title for... You can't tell Marilou, or anybody. It's just me and you, because there's really only a couple of people who know. The Last Jedi.

  Mark Hamill : Ooh! Wow. That means me.

  Rian Johnson : That's you, buddy.

  Mark Hamill : Simple. Direct. Powerful.

  Rian Johnson : It's nice, yeah?

  Mark Hamill : Yeah.

  Rian Johnson : You like it?

  Mark Hamill : I love it.

• Rian Johnson : Mark, very understandably, wasn't thrilled about some of the choices in the script. The big things being the place that Luke's head is at, the fact that he's not the Luke Skywalker that we knew, and, frankly, the fact that he dies at the end. Then it was just a matter of really being honest with myself. Like, is that what's best for this trilogy? Is that what should happen here? And just questioning that over and over again.