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
All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.
The script is what you`ve dreamed up-this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.
I see it as an opportunity to save the park, ... I love the park. I did not want to see it turned into a shopping mall.
It echoes what is about to occur with Anakin.
That way, we built this more interesting character.
I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.'
Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country.
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.
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.
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.
There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies.
I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.'
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.'
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.