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

I'm very proud of all the movies I made. I am very happy with everything I've done. I like to watch my movies. Some of them work. Some of them don't. Some of them people like, most of them they don't.

I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema verité, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that's the film making that I was interested in.

Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think.

I felt that one of the major issues in the third film is that Luke is finally on his own and has to fight Vader and the Emperor by himself. If you get a sense that Yoda or Ben is there to help him or to somehow influence him, it diminishes the power of the scene.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

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.