George Lucas Quotes

Never tell me the odds!

You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from.

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

Time is more important to me than money.

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.

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

Good luck has its storms.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.

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.

Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured.

I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.

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.

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!'

These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For.

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.

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

There wasn't anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies.

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."

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.

I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.

One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish I could make a movie."

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.

Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her.

The ideals and principles for which Martin Luther King Jr. fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

Ultimately the Force is the larger mystery of the universe. And to trust your feelings is your way into that.

Education is the single most important job of the human race.

That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.

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.

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.

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."

I am simply trying to struggle through life trying to do God's bidding.

Teachers are the most important individuals in our society - nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.

Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.

I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.

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.

The older you get, the less seriously you take criticism. I've gotten to a point now where I ignore it completely. It's just not relevant to me anymore.

If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.