I’m a lover of the great adventure films of the 1980s: ‘Goonies,’ ‘E.T.,’ ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ ‘Star Wars.’
When I first met my girlfriend, Mercy Malick, she asked me if there was anything I should tell her that could put her off me if she found out later. So I told her that I was a total ‘Star Wars’ geek and had boxes of ‘Star Wars’ toys in storage.
I’m a Star Wars fanatic.
No, I’m not doing ‘Star Wars.’
There’s no reason to think Disney is going to stop wanting to make ‘Star Wars’ movies if there’s quality and there’s interest. It has unlimited potential. It has a huge number of characters, worlds… It’s a massive playground.
‘Rogue One’ does not feel like a ‘Star Wars’ movie. There are no scrolling yellow letters. There is no classic John Williams score. It feels like a movie of a different type set in the ‘Star Wars’ universe, a movie where there is no magic to save you. It is not a movie for children.
I’d love to be a part of ‘Star Wars.’ I’d be a Sith, of course – I’m English! We’ve got the voice, and it’s perfect for the bad guys.
I thought ‘Deliverance’ was a very good film. But it didn’t have the success financially that ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ did, although that film made more money than ‘Star Wars’ in the first week.
If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I’d probably spend a lot of money on it.
I had some issues. When I first had to deal with being in ‘Star Wars,’ you know, who wouldn’t?
Other projects later this year, but I think it’s going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I’m sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do.
My entire generation has grown up in the shadow of one movie: ‘Star Wars.’
Pressure, to me, was creating a ‘Star Wars’ film, then sitting alone in a theater with George Lucas and showing it to him, the guy that created the word ‘Wookiee’ and R2-D2. That was pressure.
My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included ‘Tremors’, ‘The Goonies’, and, of course, ‘Star Wars’. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.
I drank the Kool-Aid in terms of the grand ambitions for humankind being a multiplanet species, and I think that we all want to live in a Star Wars,’ Star Trek’ world where people are jumping in their spacecraft.
I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there’s something great about loving what you love and not caring if it’s unpopular.
I think my earliest ‘Star Wars’ memory that I have was from ‘Return of the Jedi.’ I distinctly remember the scene with the rancor under Jabba’s Palace.
I can’t deal with the ears in ‘Star Trek.’ I only saw the first ‘Star Wars’ movie, and I don’t think I saw an entire ‘Star Trek’ TV show, and I certainly didn’t see the movie. I like ‘Andy Griffith’ and ‘Deadwood.’
‘Star Wars’ was the mythology of my youth. I longed for adventure.
I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in ‘Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.’ I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven’t a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.
I knew that this was going to be questioned and it was going to come under skepticism as to why I left ‘Star Wars’.
I rewatched a lot of ‘Star Wars’ when I did ‘Rogue One,’ and the thing I learned was that as a young person, consuming ‘Star Wars’ at the level that I consumed ‘Star Wars,’ it kind of molds your visual psyche, so you see the world in ‘Star Wars’-ian fashion.
‘Star Wars’ is such a phenomenal global supernova that anything that gets said about it becomes kind of fact and gospel, and then taken by the legions of fans who are so excited to have more ‘Star Wars,’ that they roll off on all sorts of flights of fancy.
My family are huge ‘Star Wars’ fans.
I’m not a ‘Star Wars’ geek.
When I was 9, I saw ‘Star Wars,’ and it set me on a path to where I am today.
I think you can become a ‘Star Wars’ fan at any point in time in your life.
George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.
I believe that this idea of story or myth or this thing that Joseph Campbell writes about is sort of an inter-connective spiritual force – like The Force in ‘Star Wars’ – where it doesn’t matter where you were raised, or what your background is, there are certain elements of story that totally appeal to you.
I’ve said that I would play anything to do with ‘Star Wars.’ But really, deep down, I would love to come back as Darth Maul – that’s what I want to do. I would go crazy, go mental, lock myself in a cabin, you know. Do the whole ‘method’ for two or three months, spear-fishing and stuff, just to play the character again.
When I was involved with ‘Star Wars,’ I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was very, very into it. But when the job came to an end, I had to move on.
I always wanted to do a very fun, adventurous kind of car chase, and the opening of ‘Ruin’ is essentially like the ‘Star Wars’ trench run.
I’m British; I live here, and I’ve always made my films here. And we’re on a journey in British filmmaking right now. We’re attracting big films again. ‘Star Wars’ filming here will employ thousands of people. We’re world-class in so many of the craft elements, and the vibrancy of our filmmaking is strong.
I was a total sci-fi geek. ‘Star Wars’ was my ultimate favorite.
My friends and family are not really fixated on the specifics of ‘Star Wars.’ My parents don’t know anything about ‘Star Wars.’ They’ve never watched a ‘Star Wars’ film.
I don’t think there’s an actor in the world who ever expects to get a call from the ‘Star Wars’ casting director – least of all me.
I was never interested in writing novelizations. I’m still not. Especially not for ‘Star Wars.’
I get so bored about that, please don’t ask me about ‘Star Wars.’ It was just so unimportant to me as a job, and everyone makes a big deal of it.
Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can’t ad lib. It’s much more fun to be looser and say things like, ‘Can I work in a Han Solo reference?’ I’m a ‘Star Wars’ freak.
The great thing about ‘Battlestar’ was that it was basically ‘Star Wars’ but once a week, as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge ‘Battlestar’ fan.
Every ‘Star Wars’ film was about pushing what was possible in terms of effects, puppets, matte paintings, stop motion and, now, digitally.
The music that they play at White Hart Lane before you walk out is just… I absolutely love it. I think it’s from Star Wars.
I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.
I have never fanned out at all, actually. I mean, there’s only a few people that I have fanned out about before: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, pretty much anyone from ‘Star Wars.’ But I don’t usually fan out at all, just because they’re all people just doing their jobs. It’s exciting because they do very good work!
In high school and college, I’d set a bunch of goals for myself. I wanted to be the lead effects supervisor on one of these really big, innovative visual effects productions, something on the scale of a ‘Star Wars’ movie. And I wanted to work on a project that wins the Academy Award for best visual effects.
I kind of want to be in a comedy movie, or maybe something like ‘Star Wars.’
Perhaps the most significant thing George Lucas did in creating ‘Star Wars’ was to fictionalize the Tao – to spark a universe where we can talk about the Force in objective terms and show it in direct action.
I’m not sure what to call ‘Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.’ Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/’Star Wars’ kid’s dream. Call it spectacular.
Star Wars Galaxies’ didn’t ever explain itself to you. It was horribly broken; it was glitchy in several significant ways. It was just this vast, expansive, beautiful universe with all these crazy idiosyncrasies.
Being such a fan of ‘Star Wars’, the dream is to be able to add something to the equation and bring something to the table like Death Troopers and ships.
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.
When I got ‘Youth,’ I also got a small role in ‘Star Wars.’ I didn’t know what to do. I decided to choose based on the character.
My most memorable science fiction experience was ‘Star Wars’ and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.
Inside ‘Star Wars’ are values that mean something to people. It’s aspirational. It’s full of hope.
I grew up with ‘Star Wars’ and was a massive fan of the original films.
The special thing about ‘Star Wars’ is you can come to it and become a fan at any age. It’s such an interesting franchise. I wasn’t lucky enough to see it as a young kid, and I didn’t have any older siblings that loved it and made me want to watch it, too.
‘Star Wars’ is so accessible that, at any point, you can sort of jump in and become immersed in it.
