The 80-year-old “Star Wars” creator spoke at the 45th anniversary screening of “The Empire Strikes Back” at the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival on Thursday and explained why Yoda talks ...

Lucas fielded this query at the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival, where Empire was getting an anniversary screening. His answer ...

Speak rather strangely, our favourite Star Wars character, Yoda, does. Ahem… sorry. If you’ve ever watched the Star Wars ...

And sooner or later, one of them is: “Why does Yoda talk like that?” Since his debut in Empire Strikes Back, the old Jedi Master has spoken backwards—”How are you doing?” for anyone ...

Appearing at a 45th anniversary screening of The Empire Strikes Back on the opening night of the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival on April 24, Star Wars creator Lucas, 80, explained why Yoda ...

George Lucas appeared at the TCM Classic Film Festival at a screening of 'The Empire Strikes Back,' revealing why Yoda talked ...

Star Wars creator George Lucas says he gave Yoda such a distinctive speaking style to make sure film audiences would take greater notice of the character’s trademark insightful observations.

Yoda is one of the most recognizable characters in all of Star Wars. In fact, he might be the most recognizable character. As he is a very small but still agile green alien with big pointy ears ...

George Lucas broke down the origins of Yoda’s “very distinctive way of talking” at a 45th anniversary screening of The Empire Strikes Back at the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival last week.

Yoda is one of the most cherished extraterrestrial characters in movie history, and part of that has to do with the peculiar way in which he speaks. “The greatest teacher, failure is,” “Much ...

The Star Wars character was first introduced in The Empire Strikes Back – and has gone on to be one of the most iconic ...