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" 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. "

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" One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said. "

George Lucas

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" Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality. "

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

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

George Lucas

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Good luck has its storms. "

" 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. "

" I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it. "

" A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing. "

" 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. "

" Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death. "

" If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office. "

" Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less. "

" It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens. "

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" The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want. "

" I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.' "

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

" The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people. "