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" I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest. "

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" I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living. "

" One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys. "

" When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture. "

" 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. "

" The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. "

" A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.' "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television. "

" The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say. "

" 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. "

" I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear. "

" There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things. "

" I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made. "

" Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content. "

" 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. "

" A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything. "

" 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. "

" Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality. "

" The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less. "

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

" The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not. "