I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

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

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.

George Lucas is the reason that we got to make this movie, you know, he was the man that created this whole galaxy, and I am incredibly grateful to him. He's an artist and he's a grown-up. And I take him at his word, and it doesn't mean I agree with everything he says, but I respect, you know, his right to his opinion.

I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

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