Teachers are the most important individuals in our society – nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.
I’m very proud of all the movies I made. I am very happy with everything I’ve done. I like to watch my movies. Some of them work. Some of them don’t. Some of them people like, most of them they don’t.
You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.
I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.
Never tell me the odds!
I like making movies. I like the process. I like trying out new ideas, and if they don’t work, they don’t work. That’s the reason I generated the money in the first place, to be able to try things. That’s where I spend my money.
If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.
I’ve always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers – teachers with very loud voices.
I like to say that films are never finished, they’re only abandoned.
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.
I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.
Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga.
Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, ‘You’re not using today’s tools! Wake up!’
It was the money from ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Jaws’ that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
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.
Although I write screenplays, I don’t think I’m a very good writer.
Although I write screenplays, I don’t think I’m a very good writer. I’m very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don’t think I would have been too successful.
Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.
Film is a very tight little box. If you don’t fit in that box, you’re gone. Television, there’s more room to move around.