Human nature means battling constantly between being completely self-absorbed and trying to be a communal creature. Nature makes you a communal creature. The ultimate single-minded, self-centered creature is a cancer cell. And mostly, we're not made up of cancer cells.

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

Luke: Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments. Han: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous.

Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel.

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

I was a terrible student in high school and the thing that the auto accident did - and it happened just as I graduated, so I was at this sort of crossroads - but it made me apply myself more, because I realized more than anything else what a thin thread we hang on in life, and I really wanted to make something out of my life.