'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them.

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I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

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Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.

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Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

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I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

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Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.

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I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

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You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.

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You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

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Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

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