Monday, November 04, 2013

Television and Cinema Verities #94


"I was one of the optimist bunch, and I'm on record predicting, "This thing is going to make more money than 'Planet of the Apes.' " I said, "There's no way this will fail" — because it's got a sense of humor. It's the key element that most science-fiction films don't have, which is a sort of arch sense of humor."

- Mark Hamill, recalls his (accurate) belief -- not shared at the time of production -- that Star Wars (1977) was going to hit, and hit big.  From an interview with Jake Coyle at The Seattle Times in 2005.

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