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Working on the franchise and getting direction from George Lucas - it's something that I never thought would take place.

I adore the work of Lucas and Spielberg. I'm certainly not trying to minimize their talents, but I'd love to see what they could do when they aren't leading us from reality.

When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.

Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

I'm like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product.

If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is on the page, or an interesting director who has enough faith in the project that they can carry it through and get it somewhere.

Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment with truly new ideas.