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

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

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.

The idea to put episodes out weekly in theory makes as much sense as putting them all out at once.

You know, we didn't want to kill anyone, but we knew that "Star Wars" is a generational tale. It always is. And for it to have some guts and some resonance and true stakes, I don't think that everyone could have come through the story unscathed.

Whatever is being investigated, created or produced now, in movies or TV, needs to consider the context in which it is being distributed. It's not a vacuum. There are certain universal themes of love, conflict, loyalty or family that are everlasting and that need to be presented in a way that makes it feel relevant, even if it's a period piece. You need to consider what context that film, that story and those characters are being seen in.

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.