Pitching Is Always A Weird, Difficult Thing.

I Will Say That What’s Been Funny Is, Since The Lightsaber’s Come Out, I Cannot Tell You How Many Contradictory Emails I Have Received From People Who Have Both Defended It With Unbelievably Detailed Graphicsi’ve Gotten Things That Are Nuts, And I’ve Gotten People Who’ve Shown How It’ll Kill You And How It Doesn’t Make Any Sense. It’s Been The Funniest Thing To See The Arguments That Have Developed Over This Thing.

And The Parents Who Knew "star Wars" Could Take Kids And Feel Like They've Gone Back To A Place That Is Familiar And Yet Found Brand-new Characters That Took Them Somewhere They'd Never Been. And It Was Important Me That We Embrace That Feeling, And You Can Call It Retro, But I Think It's What "star Wars" Is.

When There's An Authentic Mystery, As Opposed To Just A Question Being Asked, That's What Makes You Lean Forward.

I Do Think There's Something About The Digital Age That Is Increasingly Dehumanising Us. We're In This Very Weird Place Where We're Being Pulled Into Experiences That Aren't Really Experiences At All.

I Do Think That At A Certain Point, The Reboot Sequel Mode Has To Give Way To Original Ideas And Back To A Place Where, You Know, Films Are, You Know, A Medium And The Cinema Is A Place You Go To See Something That Is, You Know, Wholly New.