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" 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. "
Dave Filoni
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Kid
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" Frankly, it was only after 'Clone Wars' got cancelled that there seemed to be this universal love-fest from fans. "
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" Working on 'Clone Wars,' it was always canon. "
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" I love the place 'Clone Wars' has on Netflix; it's very accessible, and I think it's great. "
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" There were a lot of great memories around 'Star Wars.' It was a foundation - probably for my interest in movies. "
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" 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. "
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" It's a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. imitate a character. "
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" Everything that I've worked on at Lucasfilm has been considered canon. "
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" I've been very fortunate in animation - when I get on a project, people tend to keep me, so I have long stays of work rather than bouncing around. "
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" 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. "
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People
Time
" I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way. "
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Who
" Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities. "
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Animation
" Sometimes a villain is very quiet - it makes them more deadly, more intellectual. "
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Sometimes
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" I think, sometimes with fans, what a lot of studios miss is it's just the gesture: it's the idea of knowing that they do matter, that we do care about what they think. "
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" 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. "
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" I loved 'Robotech' as a kid; I think that's pretty widely known. "
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" 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. "
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Me
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" 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. "
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" I have an amazing education through my wife on female fans and perspectives on it. Things that I never would have thought of. "
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" The look of 'Rebels' is based much more on the classic 'Star Wars' trilogy, where the 'The Clone Wars' was a prequel era series. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" As the director, to have the opportunity to work with actors of the calibre of David Oyelewo is just fantastic and special. "
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