Quotes by George Lucas

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

Storytelling is about two things its about character and plot.

Working hard is very important. Youre not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

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 didnt care what kind of movies I made.

Im 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.

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have ones youth back again?

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when youre in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but theyre actually not.

Good luck has its storms.

Ive come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

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

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that Id ever have any interest in filmmaking.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, youre 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.

Football games are on TV, and it doesnt affect stadium attendance at all. Its the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

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.

The secret to film is that its an illusion.

Ive never been that much of a money guy. Im more of a film guy, and most of the money Ive made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.