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.
There were things I could have done then, I just didn't have the time and money to do it.
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.
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.
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.