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

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.

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

I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.

Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself.