„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