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.

Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her.

We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.

When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

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.

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