Space Opera Quotes

When I was a kid, 'Star Wars' was it. Like, it's in your DNA. I'm old enough to have seen the original one.

Normally I avoid movies where the aliens look like humans. It's cheesy.

I think why people relate to 'Star Wars' is George Lucas is so brilliant at telling these stories that we relate to, but in such a fantastic environment with fantastic characters and things you want to believe in this story.

A lot of us got into the industry because of 'Star Wars,' and we all have this love of the original source material.

I talked to George Lucas once, not about Star Wars. Everyone wants to talk to him about Star Wars, and I didn't want to be one of those people. In person - at least on this occasion - he wasn't effervescent and giddy, as the Star Wars movies are. He's more focused.

I loved 'Star Wars'. I had the toys.

I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.

Every movie has the thing it's about, and then, deep down, it has this thing that it's really about. 'Star Wars' is not really about a space opera, action, and the galactic quest. It's about self-doubt.

My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.

Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

I'm very picky with what I read. It's a specific genre of science fiction.

At nine years old, I saw 'Star Wars.' I saw it a gazillion times.

Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.

It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga of the Skywalkers and Jedi Knights unfolded, I began to see it as a tale that could take at least nine films to tell - three trilogies - and I realized, in making my way through the back story and after story, that I was really setting out to make the middle story.

I got into the genesis of Star Wars, and the tale seemed to me endlessly fascinating.

The 'Star Wars' films are known for their exotic aliens, sophisticated robots, sleek technology, and planet-sized battle stations.

'Star Wars' is my heart. I love it.

Space opera was the sort of story on which I grew up. When I was younger, I read heavily in pulp magazines. They were readily available in the stores.

'Star Wars' is just a special story.

It's a fun thing for journalists to say that Captain Kirk is the boyfriend role. I'm happy to give a laugh. But it's a really complex story.

When we were making it [Star Wars], none of the effects were in. So the first time, I thought it was, you know, that - I mean, we were surrounded by English crew members that could hardly keep themselves together. They were, "Here comes the guy in the dog suit." They made fun of us, which was OK. But the first time I was sitting in a theater, and I saw all the effects in, and the big ship flew over the audience, and the sound rumbled, I pretty much thought we were close to home.

The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.

The 'Star Wars' movie is coming out. Disney has kept the details of the movie under wraps because they're not Sony.

'Star Wars' meant everything to me growing up.

I've been a fan of Jack Vance since before I was in high school.