George Lucas
George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr.is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as the founder of Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic. He was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officerof Lucasfilm, before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth14 May 1944
CityModesto, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Luke, there is no try, there is either do or not do.
I have hundreds of projects that I want to do, and I'm running out of time - so they'll never get done, I'm afraid.
It echoes what is about to occur with Anakin.
We're very excited about the opening of the new studio,
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.'
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.'
I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.
I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else.
The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
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.
But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.