Quotes About Author

The agency was desperate to get started with the commercials in 1976, but I was working on Star Wars.

I'm a huge Star Wars fan. I lost my Darth Vader watch.

Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids.

'Star Wars' was something that I was definitely interested in. Whether or not I was really involved isn't something that I should probably disclose.

I was never interested in writing novelizations. I'm still not. Especially not for 'Star Wars.'

I'm not gonna lie: I was not a big 'Star Wars' geek.

My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.

Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.

'Star Wars' novels that focus on a single character are few and far between.

I read a magazine called 'Cinefantastique' that had just come out with a making of 'Star Wars' issue. They had some very long and detailed interviews with a whole bunch of people at ILM. I think I memorized that whole magazine.

I think my earliest 'Star Wars' memory that I have was from 'Return of the Jedi.' I distinctly remember the scene with the rancor under Jabba's Palace.

I do love history. I loved learning about wars and things in school.

While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.

The MAVNI program allows citizenship to be granted to any enlistee who serves one day of wartime service.

The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.

Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I'm certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.

If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary.

I am generally wary of the demand for 'likeability' in fiction, which I think is a bastardisation of the demand of identification - itself something of a suspect notion.

As someone who's been a filmmaker and an editor, I was wary of being on camera.

I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.

As for my haircare rituals, I don't wash it every day, and I also let my hair dry naturally. My hair is bleached, so I'm mindful of not putting too much heat on it.

You'd get ready, wash your jersey, and go out and support your darling team.