Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour , so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology .

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.

Obviously, people have a lot of different dreams of where America should be, and where it should fit into things. Obviously, very few of them are compatible, and very few of them are very compatible with the laws of nature.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.