Top 100 George Lucas Quotes
#1. I've always just followed my own course, whatever I found the most interesting to me at the moment. I've never had a real plan of, "I want to get from here to there, and I've got to do this."
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#2. Until the time is right, disappear we will.
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#3. The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.
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#4. In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend - only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one's favor.
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#5. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
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#6. I made lots of movies while in school while everybody else was running around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish they'd give me some film."
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#7. When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it's a source. They don't realise it is just one person typing out their opinion.
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#8. A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.'
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#9. 'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.
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#10. 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.
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#11. Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her.
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#12. No," Threepio responded, "I don't think he likes you at all." A second beep failed to alter the stern tone in the taller robot's voice. "No, I don't like you, either.
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#13. You should own stuff, but make sure they are indispensable stuff. A family of three can simplify to the point of owning just three beds, two couches, three dressers, one table, few chairs, one desk, eight plates, eight glasses, eight bowls and some toys and books for the kids.
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#14. 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 trilogy the fall of the Empire, and the last trilogy involves the rebuilding of the Republic. It won't be finished for probably another 20 years.
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#15. Be mindful of the future. But not at the expense of the moment.
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#16. Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'
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#17. Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think.
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#18. I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain.
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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.
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#22. Ackbar spoke desperately into the comlink. "It's a trap.
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#23. We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.
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#24. From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.
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#25. 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.
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#26. So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
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#27. [Star Wars is] designed primarily to make young people think about the mystery. Not to say, 'Here's the answer.' It's to say, 'Think about this for a second. Is there a God? What does God look like? What does God sound like? What does God feel like? How do we relate to God?'
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#28. My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.
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#29. 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.
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#30. Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.
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#31. They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes
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#32. People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
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#33. Named must your fear be, before banish it you can.
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#34. I'm here, and every day now is an extra day. I've been given an extra day so I've got to make the most of it.
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#35. I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.
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#36. There are a lot of movies that are badly made that I love, and there are a lot of movies that are just beautifully made but I don't like them. And critics have a tendency - that's all they focus on, which is, "I like it. I don't like it. It's good. It's bad."
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#37. I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.
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#39. Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.
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#40. The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
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#41. I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.
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#42. 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.'
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#43. I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.
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#44. I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.
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#45. I like making movies. I like the process. I like trying out new ideas, and if they don't work, they don't work. That's the reason I generated the money in the first place, to be able to try things. That's where I spend my money.
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#46. If I make a movie that has a whole bunch of music in it, I get to listen to the music all day long, and I don't have to say, 'Well, I gotta go back to work and I gotta stop listening to the music.' I get to listen to music and go to work.
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#47. You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have.
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#48. You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.
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#49. 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.
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#50. A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.
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#51. 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 films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.
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#52. 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.
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#53. We are all living in cages with the door wide open.
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#54. If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.
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#55. If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.
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#56. From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies.
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#57. Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.
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#58. Remember Luke, the suffering of one man is the suffering of all. Distances are irrelevant to injustice. If not stopped soon enough, evil will eventually reaches out to engulf all men, whether they have opposed it or ignored it.
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#59. As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So it's just one of those recurring things ... I hope this doesn't come true in our country. Maybe the film will waken people to the situation.
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#60. 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.
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#61. You don't know how hard I found it, signing the order to terminate your life
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#62. 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 with very loud voices.
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#63. I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.
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#64. I'm very proud of all the movies I made. I am very happy with everything I've done. I like to watch my movies. Some of them work. Some of them don't. Some of them people like, most of them they don't.
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#65. I think crossing into the digital age is the big move for the industry. I think it will be the biggest thing that's happened while I've been making movies. I equate it to the invention of color or sound, and I don't see any other major technical process coming along and changing that.
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#66. Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing.
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#67. We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn't get it done in time. We couldn't get the technology to work, so we had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn't as good as the CGI. So when we did the reissue, we had to put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be.
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#68. There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
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#69. We're a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we'll never be stopped.
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#70. You try to get yourself into a situation where you only have to answer to yourself, where you can ask advice of people and work with your peers and mentors and things to try to do the best job that you can possibly do.
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#71. I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a hybrid - a different style of filmmaking to what I call talking head movies. Some people don't get it. Especially the more academic types.
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#72. Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it.
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#73. It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.
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#74. I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me ... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.
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#75. Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.
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#76. IT WAS AN OLD SETTLERS' SAYING that you could burn your eyes out faster by staring straight and hard at the sun-scorched flatlands of Tatooine than by looking directly at its two huge suns themselves, so powerful was the penetrating glare reflected from those endless wastes.
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#77. 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.
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#78. I'd like to see education play a larger role in our daily lives, have people come to a larger understanding - a "bigger picture" understanding - of how we fit into the world, and how we fit into the universe. Not necessarily thinking of ourselves, but thinking of others.
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#79. 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.
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#80. I think there are going to be some social changes that take place due to the Internet, and the availability of the tools to more and more people. I think you are going to find a lot of people re-cutting movies and changing them, making them into their own movies.
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#81. 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.
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#82. I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.
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#83. After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.
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#84. As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we don't want to help anybody else. We want to succeed, but we don't want anybody else to succeed, because we want to be the winner.
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#85. I've discovered that most critics themselves are cinematically illiterate. They don't really know much about movies. They don't know the history. They don't know the technology. They don't know anything. So for them to try to analyze it, they're lost.
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#86. You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.
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#87. The object is to try to get the (movie) system to work for you, instead of against you. And the only way you can do it is through success, I'm afraid.
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#88. Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
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#89. People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that's all it is.
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#90. I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished.
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#91. All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea ...
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#92. Sometimes you must let go of your pride and do what is asked of us.
Anakin Skywalker, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones
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#93. 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.
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#94. Simplifying your meals means shunning all unhealthy choices like French fries, fatty foods, sugary foods, salty foods, etc. Simplifying your eating habits will save you from lots of troubles in the long run.
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#95. Young people don't have a fantasy life anymore, not the way we did. All they've got is Kojak and Dirty Harry. There's all these kids running around wanting to be killer cops.
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#96. There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.
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#97. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
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#98. 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.
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#99. 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.
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#100. No," Yoda said impatiently. "Try not. Do, do. Or do not. There is no try." Luke closed his eyes. He tried to envision the contours,
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