F. L. Lucas Quotes

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

Ultimately the Force is the larger mystery of the universe. And to trust your feelings is your way into that.

Education is the single most important job of the human race.

That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.

I'm here, and every day now is an extra day. I've been given an extra day so I've got to make the most of it.

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.

I made lots of movies while in school while everybody else was running around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish they'd give me some film."

As I get older, Im more comfortable in my skin.

I love experiencing other people's realities, seeing the world through their eyes for a short period of time.

It's nice to know you're working on something that will mean something to kids.

I always wish life could be a musical. One person just says 5, 6, 7, 8.

I was just passing buy some racks of socks and remembered I needed some. So I picked 'em up. 1 black, 2 grey and 3 white pairs.

When Grease and Fame came out, people thought they were cheesy.

I really want to do more mature, artistic, twisted, edgy films. That is my goal.

You learn from doing and you learn from experiencing what it feels like to be present and lost in the moment with another artist.

You don’t have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once.

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

Never to be squandered.....the miracle of another human being.

I am simply trying to struggle through life trying to do God's bidding.

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.

I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.

From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.

The older you get, the less seriously you take criticism. I've gotten to a point now where I ignore it completely. It's just not relevant to me anymore.

If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.

Luke: Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments. Han: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous.

I think a lot of people have this idea that if you put something on YouTube you'll get famous overnight. It would be really great if that was possible, but that's not really how it works.

I have a vision for a world where business is the most powerful force for positive change.

There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

Every time I work with real Southern actors... we immediately go into white trash and we just get along really well within one night.

What's funny is we were doing some fire at work the other day and it was reminding me of all the firework I got to do as Havok, because a lot of that was as practical as you could get.

I think this [Gnomeo & Juliet] is the closest I ought to get to Shakespeare to be honest.

An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.