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Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her.
'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.
You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have.
I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.
Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.
Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.
Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.
If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.
For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.
You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
The script is what you`ve dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.
You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down
'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.
I grew up in the era, 'Don't trust anybody over 30.' And, you know, I still feel that. Don't trust me.
If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.
Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.
Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.
Ultimately the Force is the larger mystery of the universe. And to trust your feelings is your way into that.
I'm here, and every day now is an extra day. I've been given an extra day so I've got to make the most of it.
I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.
I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.
If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
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.
You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.
Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.
You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.
I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.
He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.
Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country.
I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.
Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones
In my films, all the great things are put together. It's not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big Sundae.
Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.'
Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.