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.

Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

Over time I began to realize that the level of cinema criticism in the last part of XX century in the United States was pretty low. The institution itself is not what it's supposed to be, and I realized that I didn't need to take that seriously.

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.

Time is more important to me than money.