During the 45th anniversary screening of The Empire Strikes Back at the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival, George Lucas showed up and took the audience on a fascinating ride through his early career, the studio system,

Lucas said altering the speech patterns of the "philosopher" of the Star Wars films was a way to "get people to actually listen, especially 12-year-olds"

Yoda, the withered Jedi master who teaches Luke Skywalker the ways of the Force in 1980’s Star Wars: Episode IV — The Empire Strikes Back, provides a bounty of endlessly quoted wisdom, including when he tells Luke (Mark Hamill): “When 900 years old, you reach, look as good you will not.”