My Ambition From The Very Beginning Was

American Graffiti Was The First Movie Where The Director Let Me Have Any Input. It Was The First Time Anyone Ever Listened To Me. George Thought My Character Should Have A Crew Cut, But I Wasn't Happy With That Idea. I'd Always Had Pretty Long Hair Back Then - In College, Particularly - So I Told George My Character Should Wear A Cowboy Hat. George Thought About It And He Remembered A Bunch Of Guys From Modesto, California, Who Cruised Around, Like My Character, And Wore Cowboy Hats, So It Turned Out That It Actually Fit The Movie.

An Icon Means Nothing To Me. I Don't Understand What It Means To Anybody Actually. It Seems Like A Word Of Convenience. It Seems To Attend To The Huge Success Of Certain Kinds Of Movies That I Did, But There's No Personal Utility In Being An Icon. I Don't Know What An Icon Does, Except Stand In A Corner Quietly Accepting Everyone's Attention. I Like To Work, So There's No Utility In Being An Icon.

Starring In A Science-fiction Film Doesn't Mean You Have To Act Science Fiction.

There Is No Child Left Within Me, None Whatsoever.

I Thought It Was Funny. I Always Thought Star Wars And Indiana Jones Were Basically Comedies. The Humour Came Out Of Their Relationships; It Came Out Of The Fact That We Were Basically Types.