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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.

One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

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.

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

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.

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

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.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.