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.

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.

Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.

It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.

I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, "What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career."