From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

There's nothing worse than the frustration of having somebody who you feel doesn't get what you're doing, trying to turn it into something else. It's a very, very annoying and sort of frustrating thing and I just never wanted to go through it. I was very fortunate as I came up through the film business that I was able to insulate myself from that.

I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.

Obviously, people have a lot of different dreams of where America should be, and where it should fit into things. Obviously, very few of them are compatible, and very few of them are very compatible with the laws of nature.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

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