Academy Award winner Al Pacino recalled turning down the `Star Wars` role and shared why he was reluctant to be part of the popular franchise.

"I said, `I think I`m in the mood to make Harrison Ford a career,`" shared Pacino, recalling a visit with Francis Ford Coppola at his and George Lucas` San Francisco-based production company headquarters for American Zoetrope, reported Deadline.

"They were in the late-`60s making this. They were real idealists coming into the `70s with great films all over the globe," he said, adding, "So, it was a wonderful place that I actually saw, I went to the building and everything before I did Godfather with them."