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Portrait of George Lucas

George Lucas

(1944) Science Fiction Writer

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George Lucas is a science fiction writer, best known for Star Wars - From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker.

Quick Facts About George Lucas

Born: May 14, 1944
Profession: Science Fiction Writer
Notable works: Star Wars - From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker

About George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. is an American filmmaker and philanthropist. He created the Star Wars franchise and its fictional universe, the Indiana Jones franchise, and founded Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light & Magic and THX. Lucas also served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012. The recipient of two Emmy Awards and nominations for four Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, he is considered to be one of the most significant figures of the 20th-century New Hollywood movement, and a pioneer of the modern blockbuster. Despite this, he has remained an independent filmmaker for most of his career.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by George Lucas · Page 3

We are all living in cages with the door wide open.

Cages

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“[Luke:] I can’t believe it. [Yoda:] That is why you fail.”

Fail

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I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do.

Curious

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These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For.

Looking

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I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse...

Competition

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Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

Fear

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You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.

Able

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Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work!

Cliche

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As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as…

Film

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You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of…

Focus

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

Cinema

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To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?

Again

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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.

Cinema

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Luke: Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments. Han: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in…

Boys

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The ideals and principles for which Martin Luther King Jr. fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they…

Drs

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I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is…

Always

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Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the…

Change

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There are a lot of movies that are badly made that I love, and there are a lot of movies that are…

Critics

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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…

Cinema

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I'd like to see education play a larger role in our daily lives, have people come to a larger understanding - a…

Bigger

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I've always just followed my own course, whatever I found the most interesting to me at the moment. I've never had a…

Courses

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The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance…

Compassionate

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Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear…

Always believe

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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…

Avant garde

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I was a terrible student in high school and the thing that the auto accident did - and it happened just as…

Accident

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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.…

Chemicals

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It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get…

Alive

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If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly…

Anthropology

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You want people to think. You want people to be emotionally moved. And there's a theory behind that in terms of storytelling.…

Actor

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The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with…

Ability

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I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography…

Art

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“The STAR WARS Novels Timeline OLD REPUBLIC 5000–33 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope Lost Tribe of the Sith* Precipice Skyborn…

Books

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Education is the single most important job of the human race.

Education

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I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.

Cinema

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The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

Art

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

Beaten

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In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

Experience

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

General public

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I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

Abstract

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Time is more important to me than money.

Important

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