You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.

STAR WARS is really three trilogies, nine films. The first trilogy covers the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire, the middle trilogy the fall of the Empire, and the last trilogy involves the rebuilding of the Republic. It won't be finished for probably another 20 years.

I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.