I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family

Every hour that you spend doing something, even if you love it more than anything, you're not with your family. Every project that you take on, that's another choice.

You know, we didn't want to kill anyone, but we knew that "Star Wars" is a generational tale. It always is. And for it to have some guts and some resonance and true stakes, I don't think that everyone could have come through the story unscathed.

'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' (1977) is probably the most influential film of my generation. That work was the personification of good and evil and the way it opened up the world to space adventure, the way westerns had to our parents' generations, it left an indelible imprint. So, in a way, everything that any of us does is somehow directly or indirectly affected by the experience of seeing those first three films.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

I sort of love the idea of, you know, watching something and then having to wait for the next episode.