Quotes from George Lucas

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.

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.

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.

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

Young people don't have a fantasy life anymore, not the way we did. All they've got is Kojak and Dirty Harry. There's all these kids running around wanting to be killer cops.

I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

I like Star Wars, it's fun and I enjoy doing it. But it's definitely not my life. I'm a bigger movie fan than I am Star Wars fan. I like making movies.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you've really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. - GEORGE LUCAS

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view.

Faster, more intense

Force will not keep the empire together. Force has never kept anything together for the very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers. You're a foolish man Governor. Foolish men often choke to death on their own delusions.

Who's the more foolish; the fool, or the fool who follows him?

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

In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend—only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one's favor.

Until the time is right, disappear we will.

The only reason for life is life. There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

Do or do not, there is no try.

If you want to be successful in a particular field, perseverance is one of the key qualities.

You must try to divorce your actions from conscious control. Try not to focus on anything concrete, visually or mentally. You must let your mind drift, drift; only then you can use the force. You have to enter to a state in which you act on what you sense, not on what you think beforehand. You must cease cognition, relax, stop thinking... let yourself drift... free... free...

I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master.