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.

When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.

I think one of the reasons that Steven (Spielberg) and I have been as successful as we have is because we like the movies. We like to go to the movies. We enjoy movies and we want to make movies like the ones we enjoy.

As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we don't want to help anybody else. We want to succeed, but we don't want anybody else to succeed, because we want to be the winner.

Good luck has its storms.

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

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.