Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.' — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The script is what you've dreamed up-this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
It's not how well you're able to make a movie. It's how well you're able to make a movie under the circumstances. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Over time I began to realize that the level of cinema criticism in the last part of XX century in the United… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
On the professional side, I've helped move cinema from a chemical-based medium to a digital-based medium. That'll be one of the landmarks.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
As I talk to film students now especially, I say, "The easiest job you'll ever get is to try to make your… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
After you've done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Sometimes people are surprised to learn that most of the films I've made don't work. They've been released but nobody has ever… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them. — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I made lots of movies while in school while everybody else was running around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there's a huge difference between watching something on… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It's abandoned or it's ripped out of your hands, and it's thrown… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of all the movies I made. I am very happy with everything I've done. I like to watch my movies. Some… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public. Right or wrong this is my movie, this is my decision, and… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.” — George Lucas Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than the frustration of having somebody who you feel doesn't get what you're doing, trying to turn it into something else.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
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