text:  So fast forwarding, you make a number of movies. Your first movie, Brick, was hugely acclaimed, and you made some more films that were just tremendously admired. Tell me about how you got this job. What is it like to be hired to direct the next Star Wars movie? This came entirely out of the blue. It was, for something that was an incredibly surprising thing, it was presented to me in the most surprising way possible, which is Kathleen Kennedy, who runs Lucasfilm,