"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...."

"Greg Proops/Scott Capurro — Fode and Beed"

"Peter Serafinowicz — Darth Maul"

"Brian Blessed — Boss Nass"

"Lewis Macleod — Sebulba"

"Andy Secombe — Watto"

"Anthony Daniels — C-3PO"

"Ahmed Best — Jar Jar Binks"

"Frank Oz — Master Yoda"

"Keira Knightley - Sabé, Padmé's decoy"

"Kenny Baker — R2-D2"

"Ray Park — Darth Maul"

"Ian McDiarmid — Senator Palpatine/Darth Sidious"

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

"Jake Lloyd — Anakin Skywalker"

"Natalie Portman — Queen Padmé Amidala"

"Ewan McGregor — Obi-Wan Kenobi"

"Liam Neeson — Qui-Gon Jinn"

"One Truth, One Hate"

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

"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."

"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."

"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 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 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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"Hard to see, the dark side is."

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