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" I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track. "

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" If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there's a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric. "

" 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. "

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

" There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies. "

" The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people. "

" If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it. "

" None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work. "

" You can't do it unless you can imagine it. "

" 'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want. "

" Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot. "

" The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago. "

" To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again? "

" You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead. "

" Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media. "

" Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't. "

" Good luck has its storms. "

" As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.' "

" Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. "

" The secret to film is that it's an illusion. "

" I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding. "

" It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens. "

" In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience. "

" I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.' "

" Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them. "

" Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. "

" One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said. "

" Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does. "

" 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. "

" I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it. "

" Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present. "