Another question I am often asked is "how did you get started", making movies and building creatures for Star Wars. The truth is that there is no quick and easy route. Before we made A New Hope nobody would have anticipated a movie like the one we made and if they did, they wouldn't expect it to come from the director of American Graffiti. My road to SW was filled with potholes and was driven by a refusal to fail... no matter how hard the going got. I wrote about my early days in movies and how I worked my way onto the Mos Eisley creature crew on my website. Read about it at http://web.me.com/maeztro/yodaguy/Star_Wars_blog/Entries/2009/7/23_Perseverance%2C_fate%2C_the_phone_%26_the_road_to_Star_Wars.html