Obviously its a good feeling to know that something you've done has lasted.

I'm not a very good predictor in any area of art, particularly my own. I don't know how to evaluate that.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

It's always interesting to play people different from yourself, it would be boring for me to play myself.

All films are political, whether they mean to be or not. Star Wars is political. As soon as you have conflict, which is the key to most films, you have politics. It's just that some are more artful with the handling of politics than others.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would.