Dave Filoni Quotes

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.

I do love my hometown. It really forged who I am in a major way.

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

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

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.

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

When you’re afraid, you look to amass power to defend yourself, not realizing that can also be corrupting.

As the director, to have the opportunity to work with actors of the calibre of David Oyelewo is just fantastic and special.

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.

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.

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 think that everyone would agree that something that Marvel has done brilliantly is weave comedy into all of their action movies.

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 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.

I loved ‘Robotech’ as a kid; I think that’s pretty widely known.

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.

Projects you think are no-brainers stall, and other things see the light of day. You never count anything out.

I would think, as an artist, it’s inescapable that you’ll be affected by the world around you.

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

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

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

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.

Animation in itself has so many different looks and styles and possibilities.

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

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

Sometimes a villain is very quiet – it makes them more deadly, more intellectual.

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.

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

It’s a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. imitate a character.