Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones.
From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies.
You may make something you don’t think is very important during your lifetime and it’ll last for a thousand years.
I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.
For the third trilogy, I don’t know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
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.
On the Internet, all those same guys that are complaining I made a change are completely changing the movie. I’m saying: ‘Fine. But my movie, with my name on it, that says I did it, needs to be the way I want it.’
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.
I’m aware that dialogue isn’t my strength. I use it as a device. I don’t particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.
I think that Lethal Weapon-style dialogue is overused, it’s a necessary aspect of high action films where you have to have the smart retort. You have to say “I’ll be back baby” and stuff. It’s not my style.
If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.
We are all living in cages with the door wide open.
I’m extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.
I like Star Wars, it’s fun and I enjoy doing it. But it’s definitely not my life. I’m a bigger movie fan than I am Star Wars fan. I like making movies.
I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie’s chances for success, 1997.
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?
A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.
Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that’s how success is measured.