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

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

I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.

The script is what you`ve dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

You can be as rich, and famous, and powerful as you want to be, and it will not bring you happiness. That's said over and over and over, again. It's such a cliché that it hardly needs to be said, but people don't understand that it's actually true.

Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.