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

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.

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten.

I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.

I have a lot of ideas and I want to be able to work. To me, it's like one of these contests where you get five minutes in a supermarket to take anything off the shelves you want and try to fill your cart up as much as you can. That's the way I look at my work.

I grew up in the era, 'Don't trust anybody over 30.' And, you know, I still feel that. Don't trust me.