'As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So it's just one of those recurring things: I hope this doesn't come true in our country. Maybe the film will waken people to the situation.'

'No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent ass…

'When I wrote it [Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith], Iraq didn't exist: We were just funding Saddam Hussein and giving him weapons of mass destruction. We di…

'My primary concept in approaching the production of THX 1138 was to make a kind of cinema verite film of the future -- something that would look like a docume…