I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.

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

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

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

You can be as rich, and famous, and powerful as you want to be, and it will not bring you happiness. That's said over and over and over, again. It's such a cliché that it hardly needs to be said, but people don't understand that it's actually true.

It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga of the Skywalkers and Jedi Knights unfolded, I began to see it as a tale that could take at least nine films to tell - three trilogies - and I realized, in making my way through the back story and after story, that I was really setting out to make the middle story.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.