Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism. - Theodore Dalrymple

I’m actually quite tired because Threepio is an exhausting character — he’s always very tense, he’s always slightly on the edge of panic. That’s why he’s funny, because he’s always in the wrong place. I record each piece three times in a row, so the director can choose without interrupting too much.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it—in other words, by becoming civilized—that men become fully human.