My best friend and Art Director dragged me away from my editing table
to see it at Seattle’s old UA Theatre. Thank goodness he did.

It was the best. A movie about doing the impossible, for all the good
reasons there are. It amped me up, and made me willing to get up on my
hind legs and do some even more dangerous and exciting things.

I went to Hollywood the next year, and spent much of the summer visiting the
Oscar-winners who made “Star Wars.”

I did nothing to get invited, actually, it just happened. I worked on lots of
movies since then, have worked with and met many of those guys, including
Luke Skywalker himself.

Now I’m just working on my own movies.
The circle is complete.

Dissolve to 28 years later. The music still thrills me, the newer
Star Wars films are different, but it’s set in a different time, so I’m
okay with that.

I can hardly wait to see this new one, and I don’t believe it’s
the end of “Star Wars.”