When you're afraid, you look to amass power to defend yourself, not realizing that can also be corrupting.
I think it's important that 'Star Wars' characters speak universally, to kids and to people.
It's a guilty pleasure that things I loved as a kid I now have the power to put into motion and up on screen.
Just getting to meet George Lucas was pretty amazing, and then working with him and getting to be part of this process... it's a great responsibility.
I loved 'Robotech' as a kid; I think that's pretty widely known.
I think what we find, especially with the kids that grew up with 'Clone Wars,' when they're of the age where they're like, 'I want to revisit that stuff,' who knows what format they're going to watch it on.
There were a lot of great memories around 'Star Wars.' It was a foundation - probably for my interest in movies.
You know, 'Star Wars' - even when it gets dark, it comes back to the light - it makes you feel good. I think families enjoy watching it and sharing in it.
'Star Wars' is just a special story.
I think why people relate to 'Star Wars' is George Lucas is so brilliant at telling these stories that we relate to, but in such a fantastic environment with fantastic characters and things you want to believe in this story.
All animation is a tremendous amount of work, but when you put 'Star Wars' on the top of something, there's already this bar that people are going to put on it.
You read in any war stories - World War II, whatever - that there are many, many heroes. There are the main stories you always hear about, but there are all these other little people that did things that were very important that we don't always know about.
Pressure, to me, was creating a 'Star Wars' film, then sitting alone in a theater with George Lucas and showing it to him, the guy that created the word 'Wookiee' and R2-D2. That was pressure.
Frankly, it was only after 'Clone Wars' got cancelled that there seemed to be this universal love-fest from fans.
As a kid, I remember hearing about Boba Fett before I even saw Boba Fett.
Every 'Star Wars' film was about pushing what was possible in terms of effects, puppets, matte paintings, stop motion and, now, digitally.
The best compliment we ever got on 'Clone Wars' was a parent coming up and telling me that it was something they could watch with their kids. I really love that.
The look of 'Rebels' is based much more on the classic 'Star Wars' trilogy, where the 'The Clone Wars' was a prequel era series.
'Star Wars Rebels' brings back the banter and faster pace that the original films were famous for.
