We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime.

Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think.

Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself.

I've discovered that most critics themselves are cinematically illiterate. They don't really know much about movies. They don't know the history. They don't know the technology. They don't know anything. So for them to try to analyze it, they're lost.

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.