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George Lucas Quotes

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

– George Lucas

The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.

– George Lucas

‘Young Indiana Jones’ was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

– 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.

– George Lucas

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.

– George Lucas

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

– George Lucas

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

– George Lucas

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

– George Lucas

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 going to help you unless you have something to say.

– George Lucas

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 how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I’d ever have any interest in filmmaking.

– George Lucas

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

– George Lucas

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

– George Lucas

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

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

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

– 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.

– George Lucas

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

Football games are on TV, and it doesn’t affect stadium attendance at all. It’s the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

– George Lucas

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

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.

– George Lucas

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.

– 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 education more seriously and go to a community college.

– George Lucas

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