I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, "What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career."

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.

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