I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

Cameron Crowe is someone who I've admired for so long, and I've been friends with him for many years, and I've wanted to work with him so badly that I just never stopped bothering him about writing a script that would be for a pilot.

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

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Well, you know, going into any project, especially with a fan base as vocal and passionate as something as "Star Wars," you will have groups of people who will find issues with whatever it is you're doing. But our job was to tell the best story we could about characters that we loved, and we knew that we needed to go backwards to go forwards, and we needed to go back to a feeling and a place and a time.

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

It's what happens. You love, then you lose, then you die. Even if you survive, you die.