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

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

Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour , so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology .

Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.

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.