I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

To be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.

Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.