Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.

I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography school, and I said "Well, that's sort of like photography, maybe that will be interesting." And once I started in that department, I found what it was that I loved and was good at.

Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her.

That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.