"It is a dark time for the Rebellion. Although the Death Star has been destroyed, Imperial troops have driven the Rebel forces from their hidden base and pursued them across the galaxy. Evading the dreaded Imperial Starfleet, a group of freedom fighters led by Luke Skywalker have established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Hoth. The evil lord Darth Vader, obsessed with finding young Skywalker, has dispatched thousands of remote probes into the far reaches of space...."

"James Earl Jones — Darth Vader"

"Ahmed Best — Jar Jar Binks (archive audio)"

"Matthew Wood — General Grievous"

"Frank Oz — Master Yoda"

"Peter Mayhew — Chewbacca"

"Kenny Baker — R2-D2"

"Anthony Daniels — C-3PO"

"Jimmy Smits — Senator Bail Organa"

"Christopher Lee — Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus"

"Samuel L. Jackson — Mace Windu"

"Ian McDiarmid — Supreme Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious"

"Hayden Christensen — Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader"

"Natalie Portman — Senator Padmé Amidala"

"Ewan McGregor — Obi-Wan Kenobi"

"The Saga Is Complete"

"Every Story Has A Hero, Every Hero Has A Destiny, Every Saga Has An End."

"We knew that Padmé was going to be pregnant through the whole film, and nobody in the outside world could know that. Because she's pregnant, I wanted a soft quality to be apparent in the fabrics that were used."

"Anakin, as Skywalker, as a human being, was going to be extremely powerful, but he ended up losing his arms and a leg and became partly a robot. So a lot of his ability to use the Force, a lot of his powers, are curbed at this point, because, as a living form, there's not that much of him left. So his ability to be twice as good as the Emperor disappeared, and now he's maybe 20 percent less than the Emperor. So that isn’t what the Emperor had in mind. He wanted this really super guy, but that got derailed by Obi-Wan. So he finds that, with Luke, he can get a more primo version if he can turn Luke to the Dark Side. You'll see, as this goes on, Luke is faced with the same issues and practically the same scenes that Anakin is faced with. Anakin says yes and Luke says no."

"This one is a little tougher, and I think children, young children especially, should be warned that this is not your average Star Wars. It's a lot darker. There's a lot more scary stuff in it. It's brutal in places, and they should be aware of that. And at least if it does come out to be a PG-13, the parents are warned to be careful of bringing tiny little kids, like five and six years old, because it might be too much. Know your kids. I have three kids—they’re all grown up now—but when they were six, I knew what I could take them to and couldn't. People think Star Wars is extremely innocent, although we do cut a lot of people in half and cut off a lot of arms."

"This first trilogy is really about the father, the struggles of a father, or a man, basically, to find himself, and at the same time fall into a trap of wanting certain powers, making a pact with the devil and basically spending the rest of his life regretting it."