If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.

The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.

None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work.

I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.