I came across the script [42], and I read it, and I said, "I really want to do this." And when I had my agent call, they said, ah, you know, it's not what they're looking for. So, OK. And then I let it go for a while, and then it just kept gnawing at me, so I kept pushing.

I was 35 when I first hit with Star Wars. I had some degree of maturity and some degree of experience, yet physically I still looked young. That had been an impediment early on in my career, but then it turned out to be an advantage.

I had never even thought about doing something that I'd never done before or proving anything.

I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.

I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror.

Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.