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.
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’ve covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.
I didn’t see ‘Star Wars’ in theaters until George Lucas re-tweaked it.
As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history.
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.
Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
I liked how ‘Star Wars’ felt both old and new. I even built a model of R2-D2, taking about two months mixing two kits to make one that looked just like the real thing. I’m the kind of person who gets really into it when I do something like that.
Most bayonets throughout history have probably not been used because soldiers just can’t do it, something holds them back… the same goes for shooting the enemy. We’ve got this fascinating evidence from the Second World War, and also from other wars, that most soldiers couldn’t do it.
I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran – that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
‘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.
Despite that it’s ‘Star Wars’ and how huge it is, it’s still work to me, and that element of things grounds you, especially from nerding out a few times. Although, some days I can’t control myself.
We assume that we’ve come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It’s easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.
I just watch movies I like over and over. It seems to be a lot of sci-fi stuff. My favorites are probably – besides the first two ‘Alien’ films, I watch ‘2001’, I watch ‘Star Wars’, the first ones, because those actually had a huge effect on me as well, ‘Empire Strikes Back’ especially.
You can only see ‘Star Wars’ for the first time once, and people are watching it again and again and again, and it’s a testament to the strength beyond the plot twists that it has. The narrative strength that it has is that it can be enjoyed even though you know the biggest plot elements in it.
If we think of what’s up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it’s very frightening.
I’m building a career as big as humanly possible so I can be in a ‘Star Wars’ project. My life goal is to have a character in the ‘Star Wars’ universe, film or other media. I just want to go to my grave knowing I played some character or some character based on my likeness was part of that world.
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.
Recently I’ve been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn’t afford them. Now I can so I’ve been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they’ll be worth a lot of money.
It’s often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that’s a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that.
At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking, ‘I’m not worthy,’ because ‘Star Wars’ is so much bigger than all of us.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.
WikiLeaks has revealed some hard truths about the Iraq and Afghan wars and broken stories about corporate corruption.
The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
I am a geek in terms of, I love ‘Close Encounters’ and I love ‘Star Wars,’ but other things… ‘Doctor Who,’ I don’t really care about at all, I couldn’t give a fig about it.
I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.
People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it’s like, ‘Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!’ And I know because I’m guilty of it, too.
Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars.
Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don’t think literature doesn’t produce changes, but I think the social and political effect of literature is much less controllable than I thought.
History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
Wars never simply end, not for those in combat and not for the culture, and one way or another, they shape-shift from generation to generation.
I point out the Democratic party won two world wars and beat the depression, cut out the poverty by two thirds, and was responsible for the same sustained prosperity that we’ve had in the United States. What the hell do we have to apologize for?
The only answer to the question ‘Which is the worst of the ‘Star Wars’ movies?’ is, there is no worst ‘Star Wars’ movie. There – one might be the least amazing and fantastic, but there’s none that is the worst of the ‘Star Wars’ movies.
The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That’s one way to think about borders – they’re trouble.
One of the first movies my dad took me to see was the original ‘Road Warrior.’ And I was kind of raised on the action movies of that era: ‘The Terminator’ and ‘Die Hard’ and, of course, all of the ‘Star Wars’ movies.
I was interested in the war part of ‘Star Wars,’ so I started reading about what it’s like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men’s stories about wars, business, power.
I’m not a follower of this or that religious leader. More wars are started because of religious leaders, and people are following and they don’t know why… That is religiosity. That is what turns people into robots.
When Congress passed the Authorization for the Use of Military Force immediately after the 9/11 attacks, no one could have imagined this authorization would continue to be the basis for American wars that persist a decade and a half later.
Isn’t everybody a ‘Star Wars’ fan?
Since Sept. 11, many of the wars of our generation are in the Muslim world. So as a woman, I have access to 50 percent of the population that my male colleagues don’t.
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.
‘Star Wars’ was the mythology of my youth. I longed for adventure.
Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
If you’re going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it’s sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.
