George Lucas doesn’t have the most physical stamina. He was so unhappy making Star Wars that he just vowed he’d never do it again.
But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.
My shirt and my hat always say ‘World Champion’ in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, ‘Star Wars’ language, which is also known as Aurebesh, mermaid language.
Let’s remember, the CIA’s job is to go out and create wars.
I was in a TV show called ‘Lucky’ on FX. The casting director from ‘Lucky’ was casting ‘Dragon Wars’. She called me in to meet with the producer and audition, and I got it from there.
My choice growing up was the ‘Star Wars’ role playing game. At that time in the Nineties, they had a pretty robust pen and paper system.
When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
I’ve always liked shape-shifter characters. I gravitated towards characters like Mystique from ‘X-Men,’ Zam Wesell from ‘Star Wars,’ and Tonks from ‘Harry Potter.’
For some reason, I skipped the original ‘Star Wars.’ I don’t know why, and I’m very embarrassed.
We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands.
For many centuries, even thousands of years, patriotism worked quite well. Of course, it led to wars an so forth, but we shouldn’t focus too much on the bad.
To fight for one’s country, to offer one’s very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.
You can’t stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, ‘Let’s stop for a couple of days to immunise the kids.’ It has been done.
Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers in civil conflict on that continent. Africans for the most part lead peace negotiations for the wars being fought in Africa.
I think ‘Star Wars’ always has to be bigger and bigger and better every time, and there’s a great cast on ‘The Force Awakens.’ It’s ground-breaking.
People think of the military as being about guns and fighting wars, but it’s really about service to country and community.
You can’t go looking for another one of those franchises. You only ever get one of those. You get ‘Stars Wars’; you get ‘Indiana Jones’ or get ‘The Matrix.’ I’ve had my franchise.
I’m a huge Star Wars fan. I lost my Darth Vader watch.
Will we shoot virtually at each other over the Internet? Probably not. On the other hand, there may be wars fought about the Internet.
As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.
Back in the days of world wars, American companies didn’t think twice about pitching in to help fight the enemy. Car companies helped bolster tanks, food companies created rations – sometimes they had to do it, but no one had to twist their arm.
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.’
Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader’s ships were glued together.
I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.
I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.
Idealism is no good. Any concrete dedication to an abstract condition results in unpleasant things like wars.
I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t inspired by ‘Star Wars.’
A whole new career opened up for me when I was in ‘Lord Of The Rings’ and ‘Star Wars.’
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
America has fought five wars since 1945 and has gained its objectives in only one of them, the Gulf War.
I read fantasy books like the Harry Potter books, ‘Twilight,’ also biographies, and I like to read about people who have been through stuff like wars or lost their families – real life stuff, you know? I like to read about their experiences and how they coped with that.
We’re nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we’ve had religious wars for years. I didn’t want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show.
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches.
In my photography, I always lean towards the underprivileged because that’s where I came from. When I went to the wars, I attempted to go and stand by those who were being trodden on. By that, I mean people like the Palestinians. When I go to India, I see really the poorest people, and I tend to be drawn to them.
We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World… and the poverty in the United States as well.
Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
If there was any show I could guest star on, I would want to guest star on ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ because I am such a nerd and I love that show. If there was ever an opportunity to be on that, I would snatch it up.
Yesterday, we fought wars which destroyed cities. Today, we are concerned with avoiding a war which will destroy the earth. We can adapt atomic energy to produce electricity and move ships, but can we control its use in anger?
We’re all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it’s the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening.
Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn’t even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.
When I joined Lucasfilm, I immediately saw the true passion shared by ‘Star Wars’ fans around the world.
I watched the German version of ‘Baron Munchasen’ and Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ at a young age. ‘Star Wars’ was also a huge thing when I was a kid.
The thing about ‘Star Wars’ is that every single person is important. Even though Rey is a big role, everyone influences everyone. If that wasn’t so, why would so many people remember Admiral Ackbar?
If we do want to bring a woman in to direct a ‘Star Wars’… we don’t want to talk somebody into it.
If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like ‘Planet of the Apes,’ ‘Star Wars,’ science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere.
If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
There are tons of female ‘Star Wars’ fans, and they’re just as fanatic about it as the boys.
At home it’s all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don’t want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I’ll go out for a drink with the girls.
If I had my way, I’d end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what’s going on in the world around us and less ignorant.
Wars are caused by undefended wealth.
‘The Clone Wars’ was rooted in George Lucas and his characters.
Errors in decision-making lead young people to under-save for retirement, doctors to miss tumours, CEOs to make catastrophic investments, governments to engage in needless wars, and parents to irreversibly traumatize their children.
I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.
Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.
We cannot guarantee that a humanitarian catastrophe of the extent of the Holocaust will not happen again. On the contrary, we witness a catalogue of atrocities every day in wars across the globe.
