When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

May the Force be with you.

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

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

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

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

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

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

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

We are rich in hearts, but poor with love.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Give God time.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

In the 1970′s I made horses out of real mud and sticks. They were, in part, meant to reflect how much a horse is part of his environment. I combined the figure and the ground.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

Pitches are like wives, you never know how they're going to turn out.

You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

European football games or evening games seem to take a lot more out of you because you don't sleep that night. And as you get older, it gets worse.

The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.