Education is the single most important job of the human race.

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.

If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it.

May the Force be with you.

Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.

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.