Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

I like making movies. I like the process. I like trying out new ideas, and if they don't work, they don't work. That's the reason I generated the money in the first place, to be able to try things. That's where I spend my money.

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.

Sometimes people are surprised to learn that most of the films I've made don't work. They've been released but nobody has ever seen them. Maybe 40 percent of them are very successful. That's a very high percentage; most people have maybe 10 or 15 percent of their films work.

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