Words matter. These are the best George Lucas Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?
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.
There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.
Good luck has its storms.
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.
Storytelling is about two things; it’s about character and plot.
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.
I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.
If you look at ‘Blade Runner,’ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
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.
I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.
‘Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.
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.
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.
Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.
Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
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.
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.
I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, ‘You know, there’s no sound in outer space.’
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.