Quotes by George Lucas

About George Lucas:

George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and entrepreneur. He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as the founder of Lucasfilm and ILM. He led Lucasfilm as chairman and chief executive before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012.
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To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

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 t...

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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 goi...

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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.

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I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you ho...

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We’re a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we’ll never be stopped.

George Lucas

May the Force be with you.

George Lucas

Named must your fear be, before banish it you can.

George Lucas

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

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.

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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.

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Good luck has its storms.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take ed...

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

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Author Bio

  • NameGeorge Lucas
  • DescriptionAmerican film producer
  • BornMay 14, 1944
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Producer; Film Director; Art Collector; Film Editor; Voice Actor; Cinematographer; Screenwriter; Actor; Writer
  • WorksAmerican Graffiti; THX 1138; Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope