now that the star war prequels are done how do you feel exhausted relieved terrified nostalgic or ready for another three sequels its nice to know that its completed you know that feeling you get when youre in the middle of a project you always feel worried that somethings going to go wrong or that youre never going to get it finished thats the way ive felt for about 20 years now so its great to have all the episodes complete and to have the entire story told in a way im very happy about how did a guy who wanted to make art films end up with the most lucrative franchise everi ask myself that every day halfway through i wondered what was i thinking about i just wanted to make it fun and with values little did i realise people would like it so muchstar wars has been compared to everything from macbeth to the bible with people detecting traces of zen and hindu epics what have been your biggest influences the underlying themes in star wars come from mythology and if you look through the history of world mythology there are certain concepts that keep recurring partly thats because myths do incorporate some historical elements and history seems always to repeat itself certainly the political aspects of the prequels have a basis in historical events like caesar taking over the roman senate and napoleon taking over the republic in france ive taken a story that is fictional and comes from my imagination and ive layered on top of it things ive learned about the world and our cultureswhen you were writing the script for the first star wars movie did you have any idea it would be so successful were you also prepared for the criticism that followedi was excited and proud but i never imagined it would be successful let alone turn into a phenomenon i just wanted to make a good fun movie i would want to see sometimes people like the way your movies turn out sometimes they dontrevenge of the sith is said to be the darkest star wars movie is your vision for the film an extension of your personal growth and has it been coloured by events like 911 this is the darkest star wars movie for sure and it has to be because episode iii sets up the hopeful part of the story its a dark movie and a bit of a sad movie but its also a fun movie that has a lot of action and a lot of excitement i think its very different from any of the other movies ive made by now i hope people have come to expect the unexpected from these movies they are never quite what