'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

Good luck has its storms.

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.'

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.