Episode 1393 - Rian Johnson
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
"It's how do I tap into the essential power of this genre, which to me means tapping into what Star Wars how Star Wars actually affected me when I was a kid?" he says. "I took that assignment very, very seriously, not like we want to imitate Empire." He adds: "The notion of what it's really about is the notion that fairy tales and myths are things that reflect the biggest transitions we go through in life ... They should be scary things"
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