Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.

It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff.

You keep on going until you get it as close to being right as the time and patience of others will allow.

I'm still interested in perfecting whatever talents I have and continuing to grow as an actor and continuing to be useful to the telling of the story.

It's the primordial characters [of the Star Wars]. It's the beautiful princess and the callow youth and the smartass that I played and the wise old warrior that Alec Guinness played. And it was a fairy tale. It was a fairy tale.

[ Chadwick Boseman] was not a baseball player. He spent, I don't know, countless hours, many months, working two sessions a day with professional pro coaches to develop the baseball skills that he needed.

There have been times in my life when I have felt I was lonely, but I don't think you want to live your life in order to mitigate against loneliness.