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When You Work On Something That Combines Both The Spectacular And The Relatable, The Hyperreal And The Real, It Suddenly Can Become Supernatural. The Hypothetical And The Theoretical Can Become Literal.

We Used To Have More References To Things That We Pulled Out Because They Almost Felt Like They Were Trying Too Hard To Allude To Something.

Well, You Know, Going Into Any Project, Especially With A Fan Base As Vocal And Passionate As Something As "star Wars," You Will Have Groups Of People Who Will Find Issues With Whatever It Is You're Doing. But Our Job Was To Tell The Best Story We Could About Characters That We Loved, And We Knew That We Needed To Go Backwards To Go Forwards, And We Needed To Go Back To A Feeling And A Place And A Time.

'star Wars: Episode Iv - A New Hope' (1977) Is Probably The Most Influential Film Of My Generation. That Work Was The Personification Of Good And Evil And The Way It Opened Up The World To Space Adventure, The Way Westerns Had To Our Parents' Generations, It Left An Indelible Imprint. So, In A Way, Everything That Any Of Us Does Is Somehow Directly Or Indirectly Affected By The Experience Of Seeing Those First Three Films.

There's Nothing Wrong With Doing Sequels, They're Just Easier To Sell.