Good luck has its storms.
The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.
I must admit I suffered a bit when I first came to England. But then I realised that there was nothing to be intimidated by, everybody had two legs.
People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn’t an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that’s all it is.
Young people don’t have a fantasy life anymore, not the way we did. All they’ve got is Kojak and Dirty Harry. There’s all these kids running around wanting to be killer cops.
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you’re going to go down.
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.
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.
Obviously, people have a lot of different dreams of where America should be, and where it should fit into things. Obviously, very few of them are compatible, and very few of them are very compatible with the laws of nature.
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 technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
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.
The sciences are the ‘how,’ and the humanities are the ‘why’ – why are we here, why do we believe in the things we believe in. I don’t think you can have the ‘how’ without the ‘why.’
If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.
Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.
Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I’ve always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.
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 think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life – being a citizen, being part of humanity – to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.