Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies.

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

If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed my inner feelings and passions ... and kept going to where it got warmer and warmer, until it finally got hot ... Everybody has talent. It's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.

There are a few critics overseas, and occasionally a critic will write an astute analysis of the movie. There is value in reading critics that actually have something intelligent to say, but the journalistic community lives in a world of sound bites and literary commerce: selling newspapers, selling books, and they do that simply by trashing things. They don't criticize or analyze them. They simply trash them for the sake of a headline, or to shock people to get them to buy whatever it is they're selling.