Is There a Star Wars Story?

When I was 12 or 13 years old, I saw Star Wars for the first time. The decision to make Chewbacca across between Sasquatch and a dog? That decision was arbitrary. And he chose Chewbacca because I don't know the reason he chose it as opposed to anything else. Whenever we create anything, whether it's a book or a sport or anything we do really, in some ways is arbitrary in its creation. It becomes necessary in the aftermath because we need stories to live.

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