Quotes from George Lucas

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.'

Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.

I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.

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

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.

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

Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.

It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.

We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.

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.

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.

My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.

You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

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.

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.

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

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

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

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures.