„Since these films are made over a period of many years one´s artistic sensitivities are constantly in motion and sometimes when you look at the Star Wars films and you´re responsible for putting it together either as an editor or as a sound designer, you have a tendency to say ´well, let´s try something really new here´. Some things that in some way just reflect all the changes you have visited as an artist, that you have a different sensitivity or maybe you want imitate something else you´ve seen recently or your inspiration comes from a different spot. And although some of that creeps into each film, there´s so much stronger force at work to keep things consistent, stylisticaly, so that ultimately when these films are seen as one chronicle of six films that they all will seem to be a one continuous style. These films all belong together as chapters, really, in one big epic. One giant mega-serial. And therefore they need to seem as though they all were produced and created at the same time by the same filmmaker who exercises the same autorship to them and so a lot of things we do are governed by what has happen previously in the Star Wars films.“

Ben Burtt, the editor and sound designer on the second Blu-Ray audiocomentary for Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

                                      

„This really is concieved as a six part movie, to which Episode I is the first chapter. And sometimes it´s difficult to keep that in mind that each film while it´s important in itself, it relates to what´s going on in that film and it has to be entertaining in itself, really is fitting to a larger mosaic and that the whole enterprise won´t really be understood, I think, until you can actually sit down and watch all six episodes and follow the story because we´re dealing with microstories here. The larger picture is kind of a diferent story.“

George Lucas, on the Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace DVD/Blu-Ray audiocomentary