"When we started on The Phantom Menace, I set out certain styles and particular faults for characters. Once you know the line of them, you know why they're going to do something. You know how they're going to behave in a certain way, what's going to make them angry or not angry. It's very easy to just knock through a fight. If you know the script and you know why they're there- where they're going, why they're going there - it makes the whole thing much easier."
Nick Gillard - Starburst magazine - 1999
"We came up with a mixture of Kendo, Samurai and every style there's ever been, and there's even a bit of tennis and a bit of tree chopping that you could swing at."
I wanted it more gritty that it was (before), more scary than it was. Much faster and much stronger.
Nick Gillard - Episode I DVD documentary - 1997
"When we wrote a fight for the actors, we'd do it to be a minute long, but it'll be in sections of five and six sections of six and seven moves only. So then, we go through very slowly and then start picking up the pace."
Nick Gillard- Episode I DVD documentaries - 1997
"They have to instantly be in check. There's no room for error in any of these fights. You won't see it because they're so fast. But if you slowed them down and freeze-framed them they can only parry there, they can only parry there. The moves are so natural and correct. There's only one place they can be."
Nick Gillard - Episode I DVD documentaries - 1997
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