A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga.

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

I'd like to see education play a larger role in our daily lives, have people come to a larger understanding - a "bigger picture" understanding - of how we fit into the world, and how we fit into the universe. Not necessarily thinking of ourselves, but thinking of others.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.