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Why you no good, scruffy looking, nerf herder! -- George Lucas
No," Vader replied calmly. "I am your father." Stunned, -- George Lucas
I find," Vader ventured mildly, "this lack of faith disturbing. -- George Lucas
I felt that one of the major issues in the third film is that Luke is finally on his own and has to fight Vader and the Emperor by himself. If you get a sense that Yoda or Ben is there to help him or to somehow influence him, it diminishes the power of the scene. -- George Lucas
When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it. -- George Lucas
I grew up in the era, 'Don't trust anybody over 30.' And, you know, I still feel that. Don't trust me. -- George Lucas
It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
Real love is on the inside. It's somebody you have a common ground with, you share the same values, you share the same interests, you share the same humor, you share all those things that are things that will last you the rest of your life. -- George Lucas
Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
Follow your bliss. Do the thing where you sit down at 8 a.m. and then you realize you're hungry and you look up and it's 10 p.m. If you can find something you love that much, it doesn't matter what you do. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!' -- George Lucas
The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say. -- George Lucas
I think that Lethal Weapon-style dialogue is overused, it's a necessary aspect of high action films where you have to have the smart retort. You have to say "I'll be back baby" and stuff. It's not my style. -- George Lucas
One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said. -- George Lucas
I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997. -- George Lucas
I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public. -- George Lucas
I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public. Right or wrong this is my movie, this is my decision, and this is my creative vision, and if people don't like it, they don't have to see it. -- George Lucas
The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people. -- George Lucas
I never had a story for the sequels, for the last trilogy. That's not really part of the plan at this point, and I'll be at the age where to do another trilogy would take 10 years. I'd always envisioned it as six movies. When you see it in six parts you'll understand that it really ends at part six. -- George Lucas
Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to the system with is our brain. If we don't use it, and we don't adapt fast enough, we won't survive. -- George Lucas
Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
[Star Wars is] designed primarily to make young people think about the mystery. Not to say, 'Here's the answer.' It's to say, 'Think about this for a second. Is there a God? What does God look like? What does God sound like? What does God feel like? How do we relate to God?' -- George Lucas
You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down -- George Lucas
Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it. -- George Lucas
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." -- George Lucas
A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing. -- George Lucas
In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend - only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one's favor. -- George Lucas
The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job. -- George Lucas
None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work. -- George Lucas
Until the time is right, disappear we will. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
The secret to film is that it's an illusion. -- George Lucas
Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood. -- George Lucas
I've always just followed my own course, whatever I found the most interesting to me at the moment. I've never had a real plan of, "I want to get from here to there, and I've got to do this." -- George Lucas
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. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not. -- George Lucas
I think one of the reasons that Steven (Spielberg) and I have been as successful as we have is because we like the movies. We like to go to the movies. We enjoy movies and we want to make movies like the ones we enjoy. -- George Lucas
Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it, they've got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done. -- George Lucas
There wasn't anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies. -- George Lucas
Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world. -- George Lucas
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead. -- George Lucas
A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not
that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like
to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be
extremely good at. It can be anything. -- George Lucas
I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master. -- George Lucas
Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. -- George Lucas
If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
I have a strong feeling about interesting people in space exploration ... And the only way it's going to happen is to have some kid fantasize about getting his ray gun, jumping into his spaceship, and flying into outer space. -- George Lucas
There were aging orange embers, blue dwarfs, twin yellow giants. There were collapsing neutron stars, and angry supernovae that hissed into the icy emptiness. There were borning stars, breathing stars, pulsing stars, and dying stars. There was the Death Star. At -- George Lucas
That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race. -- George Lucas
You can't do it unless you can imagine it. -- George Lucas
All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea ... -- George Lucas
A movie is never finished, only abandoned. -- George Lucas
Kurosawa was one of film's true greats ... His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So it seemed appropriate to name the new digital studio for him. -- George Lucas
No," Threepio responded, "I don't think he likes you at all." A second beep failed to alter the stern tone in the taller robot's voice. "No, I don't like you, either. -- George Lucas
IT WAS AN OLD SETTLERS' SAYING that you could burn your eyes out faster by staring straight and hard at the sun-scorched flatlands of Tatooine than by looking directly at its two huge suns themselves, so powerful was the penetrating glare reflected from those endless wastes. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater. -- George Lucas
Obviously, people have a lot of different dreams of where America should be, and where it should fit into things. Obviously, very few of them are compatible, and very few of them are very compatible with the laws of nature. -- George Lucas
STAR WARS is really three trilogies, nine films. The first trilogy covers the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire, the middle trilogy the fall of the Empire, and the last trilogy involves the rebuilding of the Republic. It won't be finished for probably another 20 years. -- George Lucas
Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us.
Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones -- George Lucas
There are two things men have never been able to satisfy: their curiosity and their greed. -- George Lucas
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does. -- George Lucas
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate. -- George Lucas
If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there's a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric. -- George Lucas
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture. -- George Lucas
You should own stuff, but make sure they are indispensable stuff. A family of three can simplify to the point of owning just three beds, two couches, three dressers, one table, few chairs, one desk, eight plates, eight glasses, eight bowls and some toys and books for the kids. -- George Lucas
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. -- George Lucas
You can't put a title card at the head of the movie and say, "Well, we really had a bad problem. You know, the actor got sick and it rained this day and we had a hurricane." -- George Lucas
Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. -- George Lucas
You try to get yourself into a situation where you only have to answer to yourself, where you can ask advice of people and work with your peers and mentors and things to try to do the best job that you can possibly do. -- George Lucas
I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a hybrid - a different style of filmmaking to what I call talking head movies. Some people don't get it. Especially the more academic types. -- George Lucas
I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them. -- George Lucas
Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts. -- George Lucas
Human nature means battling constantly between being completely self-absorbed and trying to be a communal creature. Nature makes you a communal creature. The ultimate single-minded, self-centered creature is a cancer cell. And mostly, we're not made up of cancer cells. -- George Lucas
Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
Simplifying your meals means shunning all unhealthy choices like French fries, fatty foods, sugary foods, salty foods, etc. Simplifying your eating habits will save you from lots of troubles in the long run. -- George Lucas
One of the things that will never get explained in the films is how Ben was able to retain his identity, because it happened somewhere between the third and fourth movies. I set up that this is a discipline that he learned from Yoda; Yoda told him how to do that. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a compassionate life as opposed to a passionate life. -- George Lucas
I'd like to see education play a larger role in our daily lives, have people come to a larger understanding - a "bigger picture" understanding - of how we fit into the world, and how we fit into the universe. Not necessarily thinking of ourselves, but thinking of others. -- George Lucas
My first six years in the business were hopeless.
There are a lot of times when you sit and you say "Why am I doing this?
I'll never make it.
It's just not going to happen.
I should go out and get a real job, and try to survive." -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track. -- George Lucas
People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that's all it is. -- George Lucas
Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose. -- George Lucas
I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse ... -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education. -- George Lucas
It's very important not to do what your peers think you should do, not do what your parents think,your teachers or even your culture. Do what's inside of you. -- George Lucas
'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death. -- George Lucas
We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue. -- George Lucas
If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it. -- George Lucas
You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have. -- George Lucas
An angry electronic twang came from the Artoo unit. "Don't call me a mindless philosopher," Threepio snapped back, "you overweight, unstreamlined glob of grease!" Threepio -- George Lucas
I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology. -- George Lucas
I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, "What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career." -- George Lucas
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again? -- George Lucas
No," Yoda said impatiently. "Try not. Do, do. Or do not. There is no try." Luke closed his eyes. He tried to envision the contours, -- George Lucas
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living. -- George Lucas
'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television. -- George Lucas
I think there are going to be some social changes that take place due to the Internet, and the availability of the tools to more and more people. I think you are going to find a lot of people re-cutting movies and changing them, making them into their own movies. -- George Lucas
There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology. -- George Lucas
You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years. -- George Lucas
Who's the more foolish; the fool, or the fool who follows him? -- George Lucas
I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them. -- George Lucas
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. -- George Lucas
You need to have a lot of close family around you, a lot of friends to keep you honest. Take your time, take a year and just slow everything down a little bit. Get away from the success part, stay with yourself. Go off on a beach somewhere or do something to keep yourself aligned right. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
I'm moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff. -- George Lucas
If I make a movie that has a whole bunch of music in it, I get to listen to the music all day long, and I don't have to say, 'Well, I gotta go back to work and I gotta stop listening to the music.' I get to listen to music and go to work. -- George Lucas
I love you
I know -- George Lucas
You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle. -- George Lucas
I think crossing into the digital age is the big move for the industry. I think it will be the biggest thing that's happened while I've been making movies. I equate it to the invention of color or sound, and I don't see any other major technical process coming along and changing that. -- George Lucas
Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard. -- George Lucas
Suddenly everything came together in one place. All my likes, everything I actually seemed to have talent for was right there. I said, "Hey, this is it. I can do this really well. I really love to do it." -- George Lucas
I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic. -- George Lucas
You can find people who have discovered the fact that it's really helping people, it's really being compassionate toward other human beings that makes you happy, that gives you a spiritual fulfillment - a kind of fulfillment that goes way beyond anything you can buy. -- George Lucas
From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies. -- George Lucas
I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films. -- George Lucas
There are a lot of movies that are badly made that I love, and there are a lot of movies that are just beautifully made but I don't like them. And critics have a tendency - that's all they focus on, which is, "I like it. I don't like it. It's good. It's bad." -- George Lucas
The first Star Wars movie was one of six original stories I had written in the form of two trilogies. After the success of Star Wars, I added another trilogy. So now there are nine stories. The original two trilogies were concieved of as six films of which the first film was number four. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience. -- George Lucas
Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media. -- George Lucas
Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less. -- George Lucas
They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes." Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator -- George Lucas
They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes -- George Lucas
Impressive, most impressive. -- George Lucas
In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way. -- George Lucas
I like making movies. I like the process. I like trying out new ideas, and if they don't work, they don't work. That's the reason I generated the money in the first place, to be able to try things. That's where I spend my money. -- George Lucas
Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. -- George Lucas
Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated. -- George Lucas
Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think. -- George Lucas
You can't win, Darth. Strike me down, and I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine. -- George Lucas
I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself. -- George Lucas
TK-421, why aren't you at your post? -- George Lucas
All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before. -- George Lucas
Good luck has its storms. -- George Lucas
We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn't get it done in time. We couldn't get the technology to work, so we had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn't as good as the CGI. So when we did the reissue, we had to put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be. -- George Lucas
I don't ever see movies by myself. I always see them with other people because I want to know what works. I want to know where they laugh. I want to know where they don't laugh. I want to know what they think about it afterwards because in the end that's what the art that I'm working with is. -- George Lucas
You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from. -- George Lucas
Sometimes people are surprised to learn that most of the films I've made don't work. They've been released but nobody has ever seen them. Maybe 40 percent of them are very successful. That's a very high percentage; most people have maybe 10 or 15 percent of their films work. -- George Lucas
It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I've always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime. -- George Lucas
If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it. -- George Lucas
A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all. -- George Lucas
We are all living in cages with the door wide open. -- George Lucas
Force will not keep the empire together. Force has never kept anything together for the very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers. You're a foolish man Governor. Foolish men often choke to death on their own delusions. -- George Lucas
I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.' -- George Lucas
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." -- George Lucas
I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do. -- George Lucas
Always pass on what you have learned. -Yoda -- George Lucas
Force has never kept anything together for very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers. -- George Lucas
I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies. -- George Lucas
As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.' -- George Lucas
Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it's a source. They don't realise it is just one person typing out their opinion. -- George Lucas
Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking Nerf herder. -- George Lucas
I'm very proud of all the movies I made. I am very happy with everything I've done. I like to watch my movies. Some of them work. Some of them don't. Some of them people like, most of them they don't. -- George Lucas
You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures. -- George Lucas
He was no longer an individual, functioning solely to satisfy his personal needs. Something now bound him to every other man and woman in this hangar. All -- George Lucas
Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science. -- George Lucas
A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.' -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession. -- George Lucas
When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.' -- George Lucas
Over time I began to realize that the level of cinema criticism in the last part of XX century in the United States was pretty low. The institution itself is not what it's supposed to be, and I realized that I didn't need to take that seriously. -- George Lucas
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality. -- George Lucas
If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it. -- George Lucas
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 our country. Maybe the film will waken people to the situation. -- George Lucas
Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work! -- George Lucas
I have a supermarket full of ideas and the challenge is how many ideas can I get in my cart before I'm gone. When you're doing it, you're not focused on success. It's not a matter of modesty. You're simply trying to get all the things done that you want to get done in your life. -- George Lucas
I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that. -- George Lucas
Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment. -- George Lucas
Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it. -- George Lucas
[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 and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler. -- George Lucas
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear. -- George Lucas
But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies. -- George Lucas
We're a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we'll never be stopped. -- George Lucas
Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose -- George Lucas
I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do. -- George Lucas
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want. -- George Lucas
There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up. -- George Lucas
It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson. -- George Lucas
If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do. -- George Lucas
Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
Be mindful of the future. But not at the expense of the moment. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
I have a lot of ideas and I want to be able to work. To me, it's like one of these contests where you get five minutes in a supermarket to take anything off the shelves you want and try to fill your cart up as much as you can. That's the way I look at my work. -- George Lucas
I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do. -- George Lucas
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause. -- George Lucas
I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned. -- George Lucas
Always remember, your focus determines your reality. -- George Lucas
Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
You're not going to stay in business, the business of making movies very long because you need the resources in order to keep going. So you have to try and find a niche audience or some kind of audience that has the same likes, dislikes and aesthetic sensibilities that you have. -- George Lucas
I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest. -- George Lucas
The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it. -- George Lucas
I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain. -- George Lucas
Named must your fear be, before banish it you can. -- George Lucas
Ultimately the Force is the larger mystery of the universe. And to trust your feelings is your way into that. -- George Lucas
Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them. -- George Lucas
You don't know how hard I found it, signing the order to terminate your life -- George Lucas
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will ... -- George Lucas
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. -- George Lucas
Ackbar spoke desperately into the comlink. "It's a trap. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
We were always dreaming of how it was going to be. -- George Lucas
After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are. -- George Lucas
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.' -- George Lucas
In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten. -- George Lucas
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians. -- George Lucas
In my experience, there's no such thing as luck. -- George Lucas
I've discovered that most critics themselves are cinematically illiterate. They don't really know much about movies. They don't know the history. They don't know the technology. They don't know anything. So for them to try to analyze it, they're lost. -- George Lucas
I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based. -- George Lucas
The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. - GEORGE LUCAS -- George Lucas
Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.' -- George Lucas
Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot. -- George Lucas
If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business. -- George Lucas
Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important. -- George Lucas
Just once - and that was a long time ago, in a star system far, far away. This -- George Lucas
Faster, more intense -- George Lucas
The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked. -- George Lucas
The theme that runs through my movies is the fact that we create barriers for ourselves ... because we say, Well, I can't do that. But in the end, you can't do it unless you can imagine yourself succeeding at it. -- George Lucas
It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
I don't like you, either. C-3PO -- George Lucas
Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her. -- George Lucas
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. -- George Lucas
These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For. -- George Lucas
There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason. -- George Lucas
The easiest job you'll ever get is to try to make your first film. That's the easy one to get, is the first film because nobody knows whether you can make a film or not. -- George Lucas
You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you. -- George Lucas
Time is more important to me than money. -- George Lucas
As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we don't want to help anybody else. We want to succeed, but we don't want anybody else to succeed, because we want to be the winner. -- George Lucas
'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want. -- George Lucas
Remember Luke, the suffering of one man is the suffering of all. Distances are irrelevant to injustice. If not stopped soon enough, evil will eventually reaches out to engulf all men, whether they have opposed it or ignored it. -- George Lucas
I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me ... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time. -- George Lucas
For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them. -- George Lucas
The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago. -- George Lucas
All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant. -- George Lucas
I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,. -- George Lucas
These aren't the 'droids you're looking for," Kenobi told him pleasantly. "These aren't the 'droids we're looking for. -- George Lucas
Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem. -- George Lucas
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. -- George Lucas
