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Film Quotes by George Lucas
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The script is what you`ve dreamed up-this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.
- 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…
- The first Star Wars movie was one of six original stories I had written in the form of two trilogies. After the success of Star…
- 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 saga…
- From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies.
- One of the things that will never get explained in the films is how Ben was able to retain his identity, because it happened somewhere…
- I felt that one of the major issues in the third film is that Luke is finally on his own and has to fight Vader…
- 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,…
- 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.
- If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed…
- 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…
- I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.
- Kurosawa was one of film's true greats... His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. So it seemed appropriate…
- The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
- Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
- Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
- 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.
- Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or…
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't… — Darren Aronofsky
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book,… — Paul Auster
- I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments. — Dan Aykroyd
- I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films. — Amitabh Bachchan
- You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in… — Amitabh Bachchan
- Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character… — David Bailey
- I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different… — Amy Adams
- I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which… — Amy Adams
- I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or… — Amy Adams