Top 55 Lucas Quotes

Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister – who is a children’s writer married to a poet.

I got a call saying that George Lucas wanted to meet me. Of all the phone calls I’ve received – Oliver Stone wants to meet you; Spike Lee wants to meet you – that was the one call I never in a million years thought was going to happen.

I just hate that Lucas… and it is not just Lucas, because everybody does it, where, boom, they get it out, and then there’s a special edition for a movie that doesn’t deserve a special edition.

There are lots of antagonists in the ‘Jane Yellowrock’ series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

The movie I’ve seen a million times – wait, that’s not possible – my favorite movie of all times is ‘The Empire Strikes Back,’ directed by Irvin Kershner, executive-produced by the great George Lucas and stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones.

I played the young Reese Witherspoon in ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ when I was 7, and the boy who played the young Josh Lucas was 10.

I always carry a tinted moisturiser with SPF sunscreen. A good lip balm is a must – I can’t go past Lucas’s Papaw Cream.

I’ve never picked any of my opponents – from Amir Khan to Lucas Matthysse to Keith Thurman to Lamont Peterson.

The first TV show I worked on was with the guys from ‘Little Britian,’ Matt Lucas and David Walliams, who did a show in 1995 I directed, ‘Mash and Peas.’

I love ‘The Gourmet Cooking School Cookbook’ by Dione Lucas. A huge source of information and inspiration. The book is organized by menu, and the recipes are unusual and exciting.

On a trip to Cabo San Lucas, I was obsessed with Donna Tartt’s ‘The Secret History.’ We were staying at the Esperanza hotel doing all sorts of lovely things, but I couldn’t wait to get back to the book at night.

Dione Lucas has been obscured by larger-than-life personalities like Julia Child, but she had it going on. She is like the horse that came in second place, whose name we can’t remember. It takes more than just one horse to make a race.

I can’t speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn’t yet been explored.

Way back at the beginning, I went to see George Lucas when he first came to London for ‘Star Wars.’ I met him months before they started, and he didn’t ask me to do the picture at all. But the actor whom he had employed to play Wedge didn’t work out for some reason.

Lucas is living the life that I wanted, but I want to be clear, I don’t feel there’s been any pressure for him to live it.

I think over the course of 14 films, I’m returning to a place that I know to tell a story… the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the ‘Star Wars’ saga, or John Ford returned to the western.

I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I’d worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with.

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

We shot ‘Lucas’ in 42 days; that’s a lot of filming.

I’m not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That’s a slippery slope.

Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn’t have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn’t work with people who laughed at him!

I think that George Lucas’ ‘Star Wars’ films are fantastic. What he’s done, which I admire, is he has taken all the money and profit from those films and poured it into developing digital sound and surround sound, which we are using today.

George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!

My best advice came by examples. A supportive environment at home, school, and grad school. Support at the New York Institute of Technology, then George Lucas, Steve Jobs, and Bob Iger. The examples meant that I should support other people, even when things aren’t going well. It will pay off.

You’re in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That’s one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.

I’m no actor. And I wasn’t like George Lucas or Spielberg, making home movies as a teenager, either. But I would go back and watch certain movies again and again. By the time I saw ‘The Graduate’ I was aware of how these amazing stories could be told.

First career I had right out of engineering school was at Lucas film, not working in the movies but working in home theater.

Just getting to meet George Lucas was pretty amazing, and then working with him and getting to be part of this process… it’s a great responsibility.

I didn’t see ‘Star Wars’ in theaters until George Lucas re-tweaked it.

I mean listen, ultimately I’m positive George Lucas was inspired by ‘Dune’ when he made ‘Star Wars.’ I don’t know if that’s sacrilegious to talk about, but there are a lot of similarities in some areas, so you could tell he was definitely influenced by that.

My older son works in finance and private equity, which he loves, and Lucas works in film and theater.

I wasn’t the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn’t know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

Perhaps the most significant thing George Lucas did in creating ‘Star Wars’ was to fictionalize the Tao – to spark a universe where we can talk about the Force in objective terms and show it in direct action.

But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986).

I guess I feel like it’s a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it’s a small role, it’s a gift to be working that closely with them.

Even in Jamaica, your own country, coming into youth cricket you need to be from an upscale high school or have a light skin. As you get older you get used to the culture. My club, Lucas Cricket Club, was the only one to accept black people back in the day.

I grew up on Spielberg and Lucas. That was sort of what inspired me to make movies.

My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father’s estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein.

Me and Lucas Black are actually starring in that movie ‘Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo.’ It’s gonna be hot and different. My first action movie, so it’s gonna be great.

I love Lucas Torreira. When you play in his position you need to be a warrior, and he’s a warrior. He likes to fight a good fight with the other players and technically he’s very good.

I’m like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product.

I think why people relate to ‘Star Wars’ is George Lucas is so brilliant at telling these stories that we relate to, but in such a fantastic environment with fantastic characters and things you want to believe in this story.

Of course, becoming champions is something we all want, but I think that the best ‘championship’ for a manager is to see players like Koke, Lucas Hernandez, Angel Correa – lads who have come up from all the way down in the lower divisions – become professionals of a high standard.

I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn’t say… eh, that’s Josh Lucas.

That aesthetic of the Star Wars universe: the do-it-yourself, hotrod ethic that George Lucas exported from his childhood, is exactly the same kind of soul behind what we do and build for the show. It may not look pretty, but it gets the job done.

Well, my favorite roles so far are Lucas and Lost Boys.

I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There’s a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you’re a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them.

If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, and we shot this scene when we arrived in Australia during the actual filming of Episode 3.

I adore the work of Lucas and Spielberg. I’m certainly not trying to minimize their talents, but I’d love to see what they could do when they aren’t leading us from reality.

I’m an interested party in obviously the name and reputation of Lucas – because I’m a Lucas, even though I don’t go by Lucas.

I think I signed my left kidney to Disney and my right kidney to George Lucas.

‘The Clone Wars’ was rooted in George Lucas and his characters.

Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.