Acting in ‘Star Wars’ I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn’t even know who the cantaloupes were.
When I joined Lucasfilm, I immediately saw the true passion shared by ‘Star Wars’ fans around the world.
While I prefer generally more personal dramas in which I can stretch myself… and while I’m not a science fiction buff, I consider ‘2001’ a great film, absolutely enthralling; at ‘Star Wars’ I had a fabulous time, and, at ‘Alien,’ while it was a silly story, I was knocked out.
I was the only kids to have Sony Umatic tapes of the old ‘Star Wars.’ It was such an old technology; you needed two or three tapes to show one movie, so the kids used to come over to my house, and we would watch ‘Star Wars.’
I try to get out to The Skelligs, and people will know The Skelligs from ‘Star Wars’ and so forth, but they really are the most incredible monastic settlement on this island off the south coast, the Kerry coast.
I’m not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.
It’s a huge blessing to know you’ve done something that has affected people the way ‘The Matrix’ has. It’s like, there’s ‘Star Wars,’ and then there’s ‘The Matrix.’ It’s cool to be a part of that.
To me, it wasn’t ‘Star Wars’ that shaped me; it was more ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ and, nowadays, ‘Louie’ and ‘Girls.’
I still believe that even though ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ is better in innumerable ways than ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Star Wars’ wins.
Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader’s ships were glued together.
‘Star Wars’ is so much bigger than any single person involved, so you feel like you want to do that justice and also feel like you want to do justice to that little girl inside me that never saw anyone who looked like her, that person who’s starving for representation – it’s a lot.
‘Star Wars’ came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce.
I’m a big ‘Star Wars’ fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read ‘Star Wars’ fiction that went between the newest trilogy and the original trilogy and it was part of my childhood.
What can we expect from this latest crop of indie directors who have been sucked into the franchise factory? I’m especially curious about ‘Star Wars,’ which will feature an all-indie crew after J. J. Abrams finishes with ‘Episode VII.’
Some of the most exciting moments in ‘Star Wars’ are when you’re cutting between stories and you’re building this momentum.
As a kid, ‘Star Wars’ was much more my thing than ‘Star Trek’ was.
For years, I was compared to Wookiees, especially after I did the ‘Star Wars Holiday Special.’ I have some photos of me with a few of the Wookiees on the set, and it’s hard to tell us apart.
In many ways, ‘William Shakespeare’s Star Wars’ is modeled on Shakespeare’s Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.
The first time I saw ‘Star Wars,’ I got so excited that I threw up.
From the time I was in first grade or so, my dad collected ‘Star Wars’ toy figures from the 1970s and ’80s, and we’d take weekend family trips to antique shops and to toy stores. My father collected a crazy amount of ‘Star Wars’ stuff over the years, and he and I traveled to many conventions.
I’m less of a ‘Star Wars’ fan, with googley monsters, than actually how do we bend this reality out, and how many other realities exist?
Growing up in San Diego, my main interests were the Beatles, Louis Armstrong, ‘Star Wars,’ baseball cards, and drawing.
May the Force be with J.J. I think he’ll reinvent ‘Star Wars,’ like he did with ‘Star Trek.’
I grew up in the ’70s and in Los Angeles during the new blockbuster era. ‘Star Wars’ was the first film that I saw in the movie theater. I wanted to be an actor; then it turned out to be this ‘Wizard of Oz’ story: I was 10 or 11 years old, and it turned into something that I didn’t think it was.
Every film that gets made, and I’m not just talking about ‘Star Wars,’ I’m talking about Marvel, DC, every tent pole film – they seem to just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. The worlds get bigger, the stakes get bigger.
For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Gregg’s bakers, though, I’ll say that. The opening of the 1977 ‘Star Wars’ movie was possibly the only time I’ve seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener.
That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.
If there’s Cold War, no ‘Star Wars’ in China.
I have tremendous brand experience. What I do a lot for Disney is manage the great brands of this company, whether it’s Disney, ESPN, ABC, Pixar, Marvel, ‘Star Wars.’ And I’m very engaged in technology and its impact on the consumer, either what experience you deliver for them or how to market and sell to them.
But you know, ‘Star Wars’ is the movie that’s affected me the most in my entire life. It’s the reason I wanted to become a filmmaker, and you’ve got this amazing opportunity to play on that field.
I have three daughters who grew up while I was working on the special editions and the prequels. They got to be big ‘Star Wars’ fans. And, you know, I would see them identifying with a lot of the male characters, and I just thought, ‘Star Wars’ could use more good strong female leads.’
It was a different job in that, because it’s a ‘Star Wars’ movie and I’m a droid in a ‘Star Wars’ movie, people have a reverence for those characters that have come before me.
