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" I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.' "

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

" For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography. "

" Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. "

" Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world. "

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

" 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. "

" A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all. "

" Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard. "

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

" 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. "

" I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate. "

" Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country. "

" 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 grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot. "

" 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. "

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

" I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college. "

" It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater. "

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

" When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.' "

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

" 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 am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones. "

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

" 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. "