My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.

People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that's all it is.

In my films, all the great things are put together. It's not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big Sundae.

I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga.

You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.