Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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 get to your next picture. "
George Lucas
Survival
Picture
You
Related Quotes:
" As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.' "
George Lucas
Think
Film
Good
" 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
Sunday
Different
You
" The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago. "
George Lucas
King
Never
Principles
" 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
Me
" Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot. "
George Lucas
Communication
Storytelling
Character
" 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
Accept
Phones
Movies
" 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. "
George Lucas
Work
Thought
Mind
" 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. "
George Lucas
Money
Trying
Control
" I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public. "
George Lucas
General
Wacky
Thought
" I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.' "
George Lucas
Like
You
Say
" Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't. "
George Lucas
Goals
You
Achievement
" 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 screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric. "
George Lucas
Beautiful
Small
You
" 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
Bad
Said
Good
" A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything. "
George Lucas
People
You
Keep Going
" All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology. "
George Lucas
Human
You
Wall
" 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. "
George Lucas
I See
Silent
Always
" 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. "
George Lucas
Sunset
Walk
Office
" The secret to film is that it's an illusion. "
George Lucas
Film
Illusion
Secret
" The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie. "
George Lucas
Entertainment
Movies
Sound
" Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them. "
George Lucas
Difficult
Easy
Film
" 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
Me
Kid
" 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.' "
George Lucas
Fun
Reality
World
" Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media. "
George Lucas
Technology
Tell
Pretty
" It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens. "
George Lucas
Build
Which
Up
" In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience. "
George Lucas
Experience
I Can
Filmmaking
" You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead. "
George Lucas
Ahead
Keep Going
Motivational
" 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. "
George Lucas
True
Seems
Content
" 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. "
George Lucas
Help
Education
Business
" Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country. "
George Lucas
Better
You
Try
" 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. "
George Lucas
Loved
Business
Crazy