I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living. When I was making "Star Wars," I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, "I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it."

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.