George Lucas Quotes

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 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?

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.

All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

I must admit I suffered a bit when I first came to England. But then I realised that there was nothing to be intimidated by, everybody had two legs.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

I am more of a visual person than a verbal person. For me, I think, the excitement is the fact that I found a way of telling the story as I want to tell it, in a medium that I could master.

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.

Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us. Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones

It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else.

You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.

A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.

From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies.

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

Young people don't have a fantasy life anymore, not the way we did. All they've got is Kojak and Dirty Harry. There's all these kids running around wanting to be killer cops.

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the things we believe in. I don't think you can have the 'how' without the 'why.'

Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour , so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology .

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 assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

I grew up in the era, 'Don't trust anybody over 30.' And, you know, I still feel that. Don't trust me.

Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel.

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga.

For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.

Impressive, most impressive. (Darth Vadar)

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.

The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.

I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

After you've done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They look at your first film and they say, "Oh well, we don't want you anymore."

Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think.

I like Star Wars, it's fun and I enjoy doing it. But it's definitely not my life. I'm a bigger movie fan than I am Star Wars fan. I like making movies.