I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

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

And the parents who knew "Star Wars" could take kids and feel like they've gone back to a place that is familiar and yet found brand-new characters that took them somewhere they'd never been. And it was important me that we embrace that feeling, and you can call it retro, but I think it's what "Star Wars" is.

Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.

We went on the opening weekend [of Star Wars], a group of us went out and just popped into a couple theaters just to see people in the theater watching the movie, and it was incredibly gratifying just to see the thing out there being watched by people. And the reaction was more than we could've expected.