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 think that the success of the film is as much about it being something that families could share as anything else.

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.

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

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

I think admitting youre an addict is the first step towards recovery.

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