You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from.

If I make a movie that has a whole bunch of music in it, I get to listen to the music all day long, and I don't have to say, 'Well, I gotta go back to work and I gotta stop listening to the music.' I get to listen to music and go to work.

It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

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

You try to get yourself into a situation where you only have to answer to yourself, where you can ask advice of people and work with your peers and mentors and things to try to do the best job that you can possibly do.

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.

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.