There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.

What I found was an emotional consistency with him. The words, the scenes, the situations - I wasn't mimicking what I thought Branch Rickey's emotional reality would have been.

People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.

You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.

I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special effects.

I don't think nostalgia is very useful to me. There is a story to be told, there's behaviour to create or to bring to the screen that will help tell that story, and nostalgia is just not really a big part of my emotional package.

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.