Unless the radio is on I am usually listening to stuff that is very different to what I do.
I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid.
We used to have more references to things that we pulled out because they almost felt like they were trying too hard to allude to something.
I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
Mystery is more important than knowledge.
It's more important you learn what to make movies about than how to make movies
I feel like the beauty of this age of filmmaking is that there are more tools at your disposal, but it doesn’t mean that any of these new tools are automatically the right tools. And there are a lot of situations where we went very much old school and in fact used CG more to remove things than to add things.
Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties.
I really believe that you can. Not only do I think it is a part of public service to help young people find their way, just as professors had helped me find mine, but I've been very involved in K-12 education issues. I started a program back in 1992 called the Center for a New Generation, an afterschool enrichment program.
Hope is the best possession.