George Lucas is a world-renowned screenwriter, producer and director. George Lucas is generally known for the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movie franchise.
We have made a list of George Lucas Quotes
1- “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
2- “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
3- “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
4- “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
5- “I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema verité, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that’s the film making that I was interested in.” -George Lucas
6- “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
7- “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
8- “From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies.” -George Lucas
9- “Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you’ve really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.” -George Lucas
10- “I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.” -George Lucas
11- “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
12- “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
13- “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
14- “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
15- “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
16- “The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.” -George Lucas
17- “We seemed to be drifting as a society – losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.” -George Lucas
18- “I like to say that films are never finished, they’re only abandoned.” -George Lucas
19- “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
20- “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
21- “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
22- “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
23- “I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do.” -George Lucas
24- “I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.” -George Lucas
25- “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
26- “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
27- “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
28- “‘Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.” -George Lucas
29- “Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.” -George Lucas
30- “Impressive, most impressive. (Darth Vadar)” -George Lucas
31- “You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you’re going to go down.” -George Lucas
32- “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
33- “I’m extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.” -George Lucas
34- “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
35- “The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.” -George Lucas
36- “The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.” -George Lucas
37- “Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.” -George Lucas
38- “Education is the single most important job of the human race.” -George Lucas
39- “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
40- “Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.” -George Lucas
41- “You don’t see the struggle part of a person’s life. You only see the success they have.” -George Lucas
42- “Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.” -George Lucas
43- “It’s okay to lose; just don’t lose the lesson.” -George Lucas
44- “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
45- “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
46- “Storytelling is about two things; it’s about character and plot.” -George Lucas
47- “Teachers are the most important individuals in our society – nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.” -George Lucas
48- “I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.” -George Lucas
49- “The one way the world hasn’t changed: teaching is still the most important job.” -George Lucas
50- “People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.” -George Lucas
51- “Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.” -George Lucas
52- “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
53- “No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.” -George Lucas
54- “The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.” -George Lucas
55- “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” -George Lucas
56- “So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.” -George Lucas
57- “You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.” -George Lucas
58- “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
59- “We are all living in cages with the door wide open.” -George Lucas
60- “Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.” -George Lucas
61- “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.” -George Lucas
62- “There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.” -George Lucas
63- “There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult.” -George Lucas
64- “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
65- “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
66- “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
67- “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
68- “A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.” -George Lucas
69- “Although I write screenplays, I don’t think I’m a very good writer.” -George Lucas
70- “I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.” -George Lucas
71- “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
72- “Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.” -George Lucas
73- “‘American Graffiti’ was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.” -George Lucas
74- “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
75- “Film is not an easy occupation. There’s a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.” -George Lucas
76- “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 Quotes
77- “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
78- “Oh, my. I’d forgotten how much I hate space travel.” -George Lucas
79- “Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.” -George Lucas
80- “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
81- “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
82- “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
83- “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
84- “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
85- “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
86- “Kurosawa was one of film’s true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.” -George Lucas
87- “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
88- “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
89- “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
90- “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
91- “A movie is never finished, only abandoned.” -George Lucas
92- “Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.” -George Lucas
93- “I am simply trying to struggle through life trying to do God’s bidding.” -George Lucas
94- “If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.” -George Lucas
95- “Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.” -George Lucas
96- “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
97- “They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes.” -George Lucas
98- “The ideals and principles for which Martin Luther King Jr. fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.” -George Lucas
99- “You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.” -George Lucas
100- “To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?” -George Lucas
101- “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
102- “I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie’s chances for success, 1997.” -George Lucas
103- “You can be as rich, and famous, and powerful as you want to be, and it will not bring you happiness. That’s said over and over and over, again. It’s such a cliché that it hardly needs to be said, but people don’t understand that it’s actually true.” -George Lucas
104- “Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.” -George Lucas
105- “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
106- “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
107- “Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.” -George Lucas
108- “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
109- “Don’t avoid the cliches – they are cliches because they work!” -George Lucas
110- “We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.” -George Lucas
111- “All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.” -George Lucas
112- “You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.” -George Lucas
113- “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
114- “May the Force be with you.” -George Lucas
115- “Never tell me the odds!” -George Lucas
116- “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
117- “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
118- “If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.” -George Lucas
119- “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
120- “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
121- “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
122- “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
123- “If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.” -George Lucas
124- “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
125- “Someday you’re going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.” -George Lucas
126- “But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences – is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.” -George Lucas
126- “Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.” -George Lucas
127- “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
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