George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!

The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force.

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!

I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!

I'm also involved in the rights of the disabled and do some fundraising for that and I thought it would have been a big boost for the campaign but it couldn't be worked out.

I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.

The attraction, and my particular participation is in being able to communicate with my fans, answer their questions, get a feel for how they respond to Vader.

I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.

So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting!

But I must say the work I'm proudest of is the Green Cross Code man.

I've seen the teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith though and I think it will be excellent.

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

I'm not big on the Beavers right now, I know David Pollack is big on the Beavers, he's sipping that Beaver juice.

Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.

When we have peace in our hearts, we also have love in our hearts and good will toward all men.

I never waste my energy feeling bad for myself

The Pope is not putting himself out on a limb, he's putting himself up on the Cross, and that's what he's called to do.

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.