Top 30 Dave Filoni Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

‘Star Wars’ is just a special story.

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.

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

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

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

Working on ‘Clone Wars,’ it was always canon.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

As a kid, I remember hearing about Boba Fett before I even saw Boba Fett.

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.

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

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.