Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

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.

I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so nothing of what I was studying seemed to fit. I know now that I should have taken advantage of that time and that I missed a great deal of the opportunity to educate myself.

I had the idea that the film would be much better served by a Branch Rickey lookalike than a Harrison Ford lookalike. I didn't want the audience to go into the film thinking that they knew me from some previous experience in a movie.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.

'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.