
An Interview with Isaac Asimov (1979)
An Interview with Isaac Asimov (1979)
An Interview with Isaac Asimov (1979)
“I thought it was great. The best one. Better than The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars.”
Eleven-year-old Justin Trudeau, after attending a screening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjQ6gqgi0w of Return of the Jedi with his father, Pierre Trudeau, in 1983
Context: before leading Liberals
“OK, everybody, I got to get to Star Wars.”
"Obama cuts off press conference to go see 'Star Wars'" http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/263757-obama-cuts-off-press-conference-to-go-see-star-wars, The Hill (18 December 2015)
2015
“Watching Avatar, I felt sort of the same as when I saw Star Wars in 1977.”
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/avatar-2009 of Avatar (11 December 2009)
Reviews, Four star reviews
Context: Watching Avatar, I felt sort of the same as when I saw Star Wars in 1977. That was another movie I walked into with uncertain expectations. James Cameron's film has been the subject of relentlessly dubious advance buzz, just as his Titanic was. Once again, he has silenced the doubters by simply delivering an extraordinary film. There is still at least one man in Hollywood who knows how to spend $250 million, or was it $300 million, wisely.
“I always thought I should be treated like a star.”
As quoted in "Laura Dern says kids fear her since appearing in ‘Star Wars’" by James Desborough, New York Daily News (22 January 2018) http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/laura-dern-kids-fear-appearing-star-wars-article-1.3772851
“I was always attracted to the way rock stars dressed and the way their girlfriends dressed.”
Interview Magazine (December 15, 2010)