What kinds of things did people ask you or Lucasfilm to do?
I get these emails with the weirdest requests, like “Put LCDs in,” or “Don’t call them droids unless they have legs.” Legally, when we’re on the project, we’re not supposed to look at anything because I think people sue George every single day: “We made Star Wars!” So to protect him, we’re not actually allowed to look at portfolios unless they sign away their rights. It’s not because we want to copy them, it’s because we want to stay protected. There are a lot of weird people who send the strangest proposals to the Ranch. You can never imagine: People sending us shoes painted white, saying they can make Stormtrooper shoes for us; a guy sending us a whole coffin with his portfolio dug inside it; Stormtroopers made out of pipes. I think a lot of people don’t realize what true production is, they just think they can somehow make a Stormtrooper toy and work on the movie. It’s completely different. It’s only here on the west coast or east coast where production really happens—it’s a very fo
