George Lucas Quotes

May the Force be with you.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.

It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes

I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

In my films, all the great things are put together. It's not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big Sundae.

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.

I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.

Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down

The script is what you've dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work!

Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.

If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.

You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

Never tell me the odds!

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Time is more important to me than money.