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" There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things. "

George Lucas

People

Kid

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" When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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

Art

School

" Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country. "

" The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked. "

" 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. "

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

" Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media. "

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

" 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. "

" I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones. "

George Lucas

Phones

Movies

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

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

" 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. "

George Lucas

Gone

Film

" Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. "

" 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. "

" Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The secret to film is that it's an illusion. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 'Star Wars' would work. "

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

" 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 is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies. "

" 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. "