Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid.

I think that the reason you keep hearing that it's the golden age of TV is because original storytelling is happening all the time in that medium, and people are hungry for it. And I'm as guilty as anyone for being part of an industry that is capitalizing on existing stories, sequels, these things that we are seeing again and again and again.

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.

I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

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