I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished.

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.

You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have.

One of the things that will never get explained in the films is how Ben was able to retain his identity, because it happened somewhere between the third and fourth movies. I set up that this is a discipline that he learned from Yoda; Yoda told him how to do that.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.