Well, we knew that we wanted to tell a story that made bold choices, and one of those bold choices was meeting a storm trooper and seeing who this person was. That's something that had never been done.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

I don't want to do something that is so inside that only die-hard fans will appreciate.

I'd like to use IMAX. The problem with IMAX is that it's a very loud camera. It's a very unreliable camera. Only so much film can be in the camera. You can't really do intimate scenes with it.

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

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.