I Have Nothing Against 3-d In Theory.

I Don't Try And Write Strong Female Characters Or Strong Male Characters, I Just Try And Write, Hopefully, Strong Characters And Sometimes They Happen To Be Female.

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.

Every Hour That You Spend Doing Something, Even If You Love It More Than Anything, You're Not With Your Family. Every Project That You Take On, That's Another Choice.

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.

George Lucas Is The Reason That We Got To Make This Movie, You Know, He Was The Man That Created This Whole Galaxy, And I Am Incredibly Grateful To Him. He's An Artist And He's A Grown-up. And I Take Him At His Word, And It Doesn't Mean I Agree With Everything He Says, But I Respect, You Know, His Right To His Opinion.