Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.

When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what technology as about who knows how to create and express themselves in the new language of the screen. If students aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read and write?

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

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult.

As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we don't want to help anybody else. We want to succeed, but we don't want anybody else to succeed, because we want to be the winner.

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

It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.