It's not fun to lose.
— Kathleen Kennedy
From a producing standpoint, I think prep is everything.
I think it's always wise to be concerned about any of the characters in 'Star Wars,' right?
A lot of these big movies are just a collection or a montage of big set pieces.
When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.
People want to make a distinction between what's commercial and what's art.
If all you're doing is playing it safe - trying to make the same movie over and over again - that's when the audiences say, 'Oh, this is just a moneymaking machine.' But if it's genuinely in service to the art form, then the franchise concept is being used in a way that's exciting.
I always feel that the best kind of producing - and frankly, it has to do with what I like to do - is you're the big-picture person.
It's an interesting thing when you're casting a film - especially when you're trying to discover someone - you're waiting for someone to step into the room in an audition process and claim the role.
There's nothing I like more than to have one of our movies run, and then I go to the ladies' room and listen to everybody talk about it. No one has any idea who I am.
Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death.
I don't analyze things all the time, I just do them.
A lot of directors will do a certain amount of storyboarding and pre-vis, and yet when they get on the set, everything starts to change, and they have new ideas.
The 'Star Wars' universe is full of technological and cutting-edge effects, which Base FX will be a wonderful partner to create with.
If it's a huge tentpole movie, for instance with a movie like 'Tintin,' a year and a half, almost two years in advance, we were developing a videogame campaign and massive consumer products campaign.
You know, I've always been very open to any project.
There's no way a director can communicate with every single person on the set and yet they need to motivate and instill an ambition to want to do their best work.
I'm not great at talking about myself.
