You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

I think one of the reasons that Steven (Spielberg) and I have been as successful as we have is because we like the movies. We like to go to the movies. We enjoy movies and we want to make movies like the ones we enjoy.

If I make a movie that has a whole bunch of music in it, I get to listen to the music all day long, and I don't have to say, 'Well, I gotta go back to work and I gotta stop listening to the music.' I get to listen to music and go to work.

It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga of the Skywalkers and Jedi Knights unfolded, I began to see it as a tale that could take at least nine films to tell - three trilogies - and I realized, in making my way through the back story and after story, that I was really setting out to make the middle story.

All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.

I grew up in the era, 'Don't trust anybody over 30.' And, you know, I still feel that. Don't trust me.