"I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in."

"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."

"The secret to film is that it's an illusion."

"'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want."

"After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together."

"To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher."

"In a hacker's mind, things are never complete."

"The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry."