Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.