In my films, all the great things are put together. It's not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big Sundae.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

You have to understand that it's a very cooperative world, not only with the environment, with but our fellow human beings. If you do not cooperate, if you do not work together to keep the entire organism going, the whole thing dies, and everybody dies with it. That's a law of nature, and it's existed forever. We're one of the very few creatures that has a choice, and can intellectualize the process.

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.

When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it's a source. They don't realise it is just one person typing out their opinion.