There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult.
You try to get yourself into a situation where you only have to answer to yourself, where you can ask advice of people and work with your peers and mentors and things to try to do the best job that you can possibly do.
Whenever you’re making a movie, especially when you’re writing, you always have self-doubts.
I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.
I’ve always just followed my own course, whatever I found the most interesting to me at the moment. I’ve never had a real plan of, “I want to get from here to there, and I’ve got to do this.”
It’s not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It’s how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there’s always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.
You can’t put a title card at the head of the movie and say, “Well, we really had a bad problem. You know, the actor got sick and it rained this day and we had a hurricane.”
Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They’ve got a new perspective on it, they’ve got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done.
If I make a movie that has a whole bunch of music in it, I get to listen to the music all day long, and I don’t have to say, ‘Well, I gotta go back to work and I gotta stop listening to the music.’ I get to listen to music and go to work.
Real love is on the inside. It’s somebody you have a common ground with, you share the same values, you share the same interests, you share the same humor, you share all those things that are things that will last you the rest of your life.
Time is more important to me than money.
Be mindful of the future. But not at the expense of the moment.
Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It’s the only way we grow.
Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view.
Who’s the more foolish; the fool, or the fool who follows him?
In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend – only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one’s favor.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Until the time is right, disappear we will.
I’ve been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master.
Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing.