We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel.

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

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

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.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.