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.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with weapons. The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea.