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

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" Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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