When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. I'm very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don't think I would have been too successful.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.