'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 didn't think of him as an enemy at that time. We were going after Iran and using him as our surrogate, just as we were doing in Vietnam: The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable:'

'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 o…

'[In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France after they got rid of the king an…

'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…