Working on 'Clone Wars,' it was always canon.
When you're afraid, you look to amass power to defend yourself, not realizing that can also be corrupting.
There were a lot of great memories around 'Star Wars.' It was a foundation - probably for my interest in movies.
The look of 'Rebels' is based much more on the classic 'Star Wars' trilogy, where the 'The Clone Wars' was a prequel era series.
Sometimes a villain is very quiet - it makes them more deadly, more intellectual.
Projects you think are no-brainers stall, and other things see the light of day. You never count anything out.
It's a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. Imitate a character.
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.
I would think, as an artist, it's inescapable that you'll be affected by the world around you.
I think that everyone would agree that something that Marvel has done brilliantly is weave comedy into all of their action movies.
I think it's important that 'Star Wars' characters speak universally, to kids and to people.
I loved 'Robotech' as a kid; I think that's pretty widely known.
I love the place 'Clone Wars' has on Netflix; it's very accessible, and I think it's great.
I have an amazing education through my wife on female fans and perspectives on it. Things that I never would have thought of.
I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.
'Star Wars Rebels' brings back the banter and faster pace that the original films were famous for.
Frankly, it was only after 'Clone Wars' got cancelled that there seemed to be this universal love-fest from fans.
'The Clone Wars' is certainly set in the darkest possible time throughout the whole 'Star Wars' story.
'The Clone Wars' got very dark as we headed towards the end of the war and the downfall of the Jedi.
As the director, to have the opportunity to work with actors of the calibre of David Oyelewo is just fantastic and special.
Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.
'The Clone Wars' was rooted in George Lucas and his characters.