Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do.

That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

After you've done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They look at your first film and they say, "Oh well, we don't want you anymore."

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.

There's nothing worse than the frustration of having somebody who you feel doesn't get what you're doing, trying to turn it into something else. It's a very, very annoying and sort of frustrating thing and I just never wanted to go through it. I was very fortunate as I came up through the film business that I was able to insulate myself from that.