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" I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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