George Lucas quotes - page 4

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 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. View quote
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The script is what you`ve dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with. View quote
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If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it. View quote
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'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens. View quote
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'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want. (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. View quote
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I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse. View quote
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In my experience, there's no such thing as luck. View quote
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Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts. View quote
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I grew up in the era, 'Don't trust anybody over 30.' And, you know, I still feel that. Don't trust me. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned. View quote
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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 education more seriously and go to a community college. View quote
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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)
Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think. View quote
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A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing. View quote
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In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way. View quote
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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. ... When I wrote it [Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith], Iraq didn't exist... We were just funding Saddam Hussein and giving him weapons of mass destruction. We didn't think of him as an enemy at that time. We were going after Iran and using him as our surrogate, just as we were doing in Vietnam... The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable... View quote
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