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"Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director."
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"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."

"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."

"For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together."

"Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week."

"We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?"
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"A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price."

"I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed."

"I think the things I wanted answered have been answered by people in the know that we can't talk about, so I'm perfectly happy with how Chewie came to be where he is and what is going on in Episode III."

"With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now."

"When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much."

"I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done."

"I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time."
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