George Lucas

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

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

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.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.