If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.

I was a terrible student in high school and the thing that the auto accident did - and it happened just as I graduated, so I was at this sort of crossroads - but it made me apply myself more, because I realized more than anything else what a thin thread we hang on in life, and I really wanted to make something out of my life.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with weapons. The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells.

People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that's all it is.

I'm here, and every day now is an extra day. I've been given an extra day so I've got to make the most of it.