Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

"Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. While the congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict...."

"Impossible. The Sith have been extinct for a millennium."

"Hard to see, the dark side is."

"I do not believe the Sith could've returned without us knowing."

"We will use all our resources to unravel this mystery. We will discover the identity of your attacker. May the Force be with you."

"You refer to the prophecy of the one who will bring balance to the Force. You believe it's this boy?"

"Harrison Ford wears the same outfit for three flicks, and I was complaining that I wear, like, six outfits. And my mother – Natalie Portman – she wears three million. She walks through a doorway and there's another outfit. It's like the Liberace of sci-fi changing of clothes."

"Star Wars fame turned my life into a living hell"

"When you have something like that there's a lot of expectations for it to meet the standards of the public and I don't think George did that."

"For me to go back and watch it now would be kind of creepy."

"Jar Jar is the key to all of this."

"Again it's like poetry, it's sort of. They rhyme, every stanza kind of rhymes with the last one. Hopefully it'll work."

"Caserta was one of the most beautiful palaces on the planet and once we saw this there was no question that we wanted to shoot here."

"Someone of that stature would automatically be changing their costumes to fit the occasion."

"You can't just go and do a location shoot of Coruscant; there's nothing like it that people have ever seen."

"I watched it once, at the premiere, so I'm not in a good position to judge. They had a tall order, the three films I did. The fans waited so long and wanted to feel like they did when they watched the first film, but they were grown-ups by that time. I don't mind the criticism. I've heard it to my face."

"One of the things about Episode One I was slightly disappointed by was, I thought it was very kind of flat. I think there's much more humour and there's much more colour in Episode II: Attack of the Clones. I think it's more reminiscent of the original three Star Wars films than Episode I was."

"Rastafarian Stepin Fetchit on platform hoofs, crossed annoyingly with Butterfly McQueen."

"A huge exercise in imagination. A kid playing in a cardboard box he pretends is a house, or a spaceship."

"It was wonderful playing a young queen with so much power. I think it will be good for young women to see a strong woman of action who is also smart and a leader."

"I was very disappointed when the film actually came out, because I didn't think it was very good! But it was certainly an extremely exciting thing to be a part of."

"It was a real shame, because I think the first Star Wars film is my favourite film ever. That would be my desert island film. For me it's got everything. There's not a beat wrong in that film."

"I didn't feel like he was a director of actors; he was more interested in stuff and effects. He didn't interest me and I wouldn't think I interested him."

"I did meet her and she was absolutely enchanting. But on the day I'm supposed to do my scene with her, for which I'd traveled halfway around the world, I said, 'Where's Natalie?' And George says, 'That's Natalie,' and points to a bit of paper on the wall. It was just boring."

"Every generation has a legend. Every journey has a first step. Every saga has a beginning."

"One Truth, One Hate"

"Liam Neeson — Qui-Gon Jinn"

"Ewan McGregor — Obi-Wan Kenobi"

"Natalie Portman — Queen Padmé Amidala"

"Jake Lloyd — Anakin Skywalker"

"Silas Carson — Nute Gunray, Ki-Adi Mundi"

"Ian McDiarmid — Senator Palpatine/Darth Sidious"

"Ray Park — Darth Maul"

"Kenny Baker — R2-D2"

"Keira Knightley - Sabé, Padmé's decoy"

"Frank Oz — Master Yoda"

"Ahmed Best — Jar Jar Binks"

"Anthony Daniels — C-3PO"

"Andy Secombe — Watto"

"Lewis Macleod — Sebulba"

"Brian Blessed — Boss Nass"

"Peter Serafinowicz — Darth Maul"

"Greg Proops/Scott Capurro — Fode and Beed"