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.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

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

Well, when Kathy Kennedy, who is the president of Lucasfilm, came to me to ask if I'd be interested in working on this "Star Wars" movie, we talked about a young woman at the center of the story from the outset. And it was something that was always an important part of this movie.

I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.

As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

The idea to put episodes out weekly in theory makes as much sense as putting them all out at once.