Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think.

Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured.

Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

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

I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.

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.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?