I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

The time a movie is made is unique, not only from the talent that is available but if the public was ready for it.

Time is the lens through which dreams are captured.

I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.

I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie.

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.