Quotes from Dave Filoni

I've worked hard, for sure, but like anything, it takes a lot of luck and being in the right place at the right time, and then making the most of the opportunity.

I have an amazing education through my wife on female fans and perspectives on it. Things that I never would have thought of.

There were a lot of great memories around 'Star Wars.' It was a foundation - probably for my interest in movies.

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.

'Star Wars' is just a special 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.

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.

'The Clone Wars' is certainly set in the darkest possible time throughout the whole 'Star Wars' story.

Every 'Star Wars' film was about pushing what was possible in terms of effects, puppets, matte paintings, stop motion and, now, digitally.

I think it's important that 'Star Wars' characters speak universally, to kids and to people.

My hope is that, in years to come, people will still be watching 'The Clone Wars,' and they'll still hold up. That's my goal - time tested.

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.

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 Rebels' brings back the banter and faster pace that the original films were famous for.

Working on 'Clone Wars,' it was always canon.

'The Clone Wars' got very dark as we headed towards the end of the war and the downfall of the Jedi.

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.

Lucasfilm called me out of the blue, and I almost hung up because I thought it was a practical joke. This was right before 'Revenge Of The Sith' came out. Here you are, a big 'Star Wars' fan, talking about 'Star Wars' all the time, and you have your master replica lightsaber, and then you get a call from Lucasfilm for a job?

I love the place 'Clone Wars' has on Netflix; it's very accessible, and I think it's great.

Frankly, it was only after 'Clone Wars' got cancelled that there seemed to be this universal love-fest from fans.

The look of 'Rebels' is based much more on the classic 'Star Wars' trilogy, where the 'The Clone Wars' was a prequel era series.

'The Clone Wars' was rooted in George Lucas and his characters.

Everything that I've worked on at Lucasfilm has been considered canon.

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.