Category: Star Wars
Ewan McGregor’s motorcylcle documentary “Long Way Down” where they visited the Star Wars set in Tunisia.
5 Ralph McQuarrie Star Wars Concepts
What do Joseph Campbells’ The Hero with a Thousand Faces and George Lucas’ Star Wars have in common?
Mark Hamill interview on set of Star Wars – Star Wars is more like the Wizard of Oz, and the story is more like a story about a farm boy in Nebraska
An Interview with John Morton, Aliases: Dak (Lukes Gunner in Empire Strikes Back), Species: Human, Homeworld: Maryland, Weapon of Choice: the Pen, Vehicle of Choice: Snowspeeder, Political Affiliation: Rebel
http://www.theforce.net/jedicouncil/interview/dak.asp 
We then asked him about what it was like filming The Empire Strikes Back. “I think first of all very definitely that film had a different morale than any of the other pictures that I worked on. I think thats a tribute to Lucas and Gary Kurtz. They were very sensitive men, very ethical.”
On the set, I would have to say, ‘Don’t blow up my planet, please!’ and all I’m doing is looking at a board with an X on it,” says Carrie Fisher in ‘Star Wars’: Slaves to the ‘Empire’- A Rolling Stone article on the The Empire Strikes Back, circa 1980.
“There’s no place for personal triumph in a film like this,” says Harrison Ford dryly, referring to his return to the screen as mercenary adventurer Han Solo in Star Wars’ monumental sequel, The Empire Strikes Back. Although Ford shares star billing, he is painfully aware that he and the other featured performers are mere pawns in a projected nine-part series of sci-fi films, cartoonlike components with little more dimension than the hapless androids C-3PO and R2D2.