No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

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

Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

THX 1138.

I don’t know why the fans are so mad, … I’ve been saying all along that they are my movies. Wait until they find out that my merchandising contracts all have the same text in...

What would normally cost $20 million-$30 million we can do for $1 million,

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...

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

I’m also extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Luke, there is no try, there is either do or not do.

Star Wars,

When I started to write it, it got to be too big, it got to be 250, 300 pages, … I said, well, I can’t do this. The studio will never allow this. I will...

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

We’re a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we’ll never be stopped.

In this film, you begin to see that he has a fear of losing things, a fear of losing his mother, and as a result, he wants to begin to control things, he wants to...

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

It’s animated, … It’s about the Clone Wars. It’s got all our characters fighting the dreaded Federation. And at the same time I’m working on ‘Indiana Jones’ and I’m working on a film called, ‘Red...

Star Wars’ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. Its what they want.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

My life is too short to become a film studio.

I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of...

We’re very excited about the opening of the new studio,

It’s all being buried with me, … All copies of the two trilogies will be brought to my gravesite within one month of my death and laid to rest with me.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

Named must your fear be, before banish it you can.

There were things I could have done then, I just didn’t have the time and money to do it.

You know, this was written a long time ago and it was based on history. All of Star Wars was reasonably political. It’s just that most people didn’t notice it until this episode was put...

The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.

Now that we have digital technology, we can actually do a shot like this, which we struggled and struggled and struggled with back in the old days. So this was a way to make our...

After that only the VHS and DVD copies that people have purchased will be left, … That’s not a problem, as each VHS copy has been encrypted to write commands to any VCR that tries...

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

Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.

The costumes have a tendency to appear on the screen in a very short amount of time. It’s very hard to see the detail and the thousands of hours of work that go into each...

Kurosawa was one of film’s true greats, … His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So it seemed appropriate to name the new digital studio for him.

I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public.

That way, we built this more interesting character.

It echoes what is about to occur with Anakin.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

Kurosawa was one of film’s true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So it seemed appropriate to name the new digital studio for him.

The Empire strikes back.

This is the first group I could come to that didn’t ask me what digital arts are,

This is huge for a guy like me that’s trying to get my career off the ground – to be able to open for Brooks & Dunn – the duo of the millennium – is...

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.