Via Variety.com:

“As an actor, you’re only one person, one instrument in the orchestra. He’s the entire cast.”

“Aside from George Lucas, nobody deserves more credit for the success of ‘Star Wars’ than John Williams,” says Mark Hamill.

It’s a pretty bold statement from the actor who plays Luke Skywalker in five of the eight “Star Wars” movies, including a leading role in “The Last Jedi,” now the biggest-grossing movie of 2017. But then, perhaps more than most actors, Hamill appreciates the role of music in movies.

Hamill’s interest was sparked as a child, first taking note of Carl Stalling’s name as composer on old Warner Bros. cartoons, then Bernard Herrmann’s on the fantasy films of special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen. “I saw ‘Jason and the Argonauts’ on a double bill with ‘7th Voyage of Sinbad,’” Hamill tells Variety. “I could hum the main-title themes from the time I saw them.

Once he realized that Herrmann was the same composer who had terrified moviegoers with his music for “Psycho,” he was even more wowed. Says Hamill: “What’s ‘Psycho’ without that score? It’s such an impactful and integral part of that whole experience.” As Hamill grew older, and into more of a film buff, he came to appreciate the work of Max Steiner (“King Kong”) and Erich Wolfgang Korngold (“The Adventures of Robin Hood”).

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