It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to people who watch it.

I said to George Lucas, "I'd like a purple lightsaber." And he said, "Why?" and I said, "I just want to be able to find myself. I'm the most powerful Jedi in the universe, and I think it would be an interesting thing for me to have a different color lightsaber than anybody else."

When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They need to be funny.

I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

It's often hope, hopeful movie making. You're always looking for catchphrases. That's always funny, when you're looking for that future line. "Uh oh, future line. Okay."

The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated the turn of the year from the death of winter to the life of spring - the winter solstice. As this was an auspicious change the festival was a very joyous one... The giving of presents and the burning of candles characterized it. Among the Northern people the lighting of a huge log in the houses of the great and with appropriate ceremonies was a feature.