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

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

I feel like in telling stories, there are the things the audience thinks are important, and then there are the things that are actually important.

Directing a movie precludes me from being involved in any greater way. But, the job was never to do more, it was always to enable. Sometimes as a producer, you're creating and writing it, or sometimes you're writing and directing it, or other times you're there from the very beginning.

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

Well, when Kathy Kennedy, who is the president of Lucasfilm, came to me to ask if I'd be interested in working on this "Star Wars" movie, we talked about a young woman at the center of the story from the outset. And it was something that was always an important part of this movie.