Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

Human nature means battling constantly between being completely self-absorbed and trying to be a communal creature. Nature makes you a communal creature. The ultimate single-minded, self-centered creature is a cancer cell. And mostly, we're not made up of cancer cells.

It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga of the Skywalkers and Jedi Knights unfolded, I began to see it as a tale that could take at least nine films to tell - three trilogies - and I realized, in making my way through the back story and after story, that I was really setting out to make the middle story.

Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.

For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.

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