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

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

There wasn't anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies.

That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.