“Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I’ve always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.”

Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.

Good luck has its storms.

I am simply trying to struggle through life trying to do God’s bidding.

Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I’ve got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

It’s okay to lose; just don’t lose the lesson.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

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

Don’t avoid the cliches – they are cliches because they work!

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.

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

It’s now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I’ve always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime.

The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a compassionate life as opposed to a passionate life.

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

Death I believe has many forms. It is a shapeshifter. But amongst all the forms it has, love is my favorite.

If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.

I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.