Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

I don't ever see movies by myself. I always see them with other people because I want to know what works. I want to know where they laugh. I want to know where they don't laugh. I want to know what they think about it afterwards because in the end that's what the art that I'm working with is.

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.

Impressive, most impressive. (Darth Vadar)

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful.

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

I never had a story for the sequels, for the last trilogy. That's not really part of the plan at this point, and I'll be at the age where to do another trilogy would take 10 years. I'd always envisioned it as six movies. When you see it in six parts you'll understand that it really ends at part six.