Quotes from George Lucas

No," Yoda said impatiently. "Try not. Do, do. Or do not. There is no try." Luke closed his eyes. He tried to envision the contours

the suffering of one man is the suffering of all. ~ Obi Wan Kenobi

I'd just as soon kiss a Wookiee. I can arrange that.

All democracies turn into dictatorships—but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea

What's a duck?" Luke asked curiously.

The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

In those first dark days it seemed certain the bright flame of resistance would be extinguished before it could cast the light of new truth across a galaxy of oppressed and beaten peoples Ã¢â'¬Â¦ From the First Saga Journal of the Whills

Why I stick my neck out for you, when all you ever bring me is trouble, is beyond my capacity to comprehend.

These aren't the 'droids you're looking for," Kenobi told him pleasantly. "These aren't the 'droids we're looking for.

He was no longer an individual, functioning solely to satisfy his personal needs. Something now bound him to every other man and woman in this hangar. All

There were aging orange embers, blue dwarfs, twin yellow giants. There were collapsing neutron stars, and angry supernovae that hissed into the icy emptiness. There were borning stars, breathing stars, pulsing stars, and dying stars. There was the Death Star. At

IT WAS AN OLD SETTLERS' SAYING that you could burn your eyes out faster by staring straight and hard at the sun-scorched flatlands of Tatooine than by looking directly at its two huge suns themselves, so powerful was the penetrating glare reflected from those endless wastes.

Force has never kept anything together for very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers.

Just once—and that was a long time ago, in a star system far, far away. This

To look at these two, one would have supposed that the tall, humanlike machine, Threepio, was the master and the stubby, tripodal robot, Artoo Detoo, an inferior. But while Threepio might have sniffed disdainfully at the suggestion, they were in fact equal in everything save loquacity.

One purpose, one thought, one obsession dominated that mind now. It burned in the brain of Darth Vader as he turned down another passageway in the broken fighter.

Everybody has talent it is just a matter of moving around until you discover what it is.

Do. Or do not. There is no try. -Yoda

But that's not why they should help us. That's why I used to do stuff, because it was in my interest. But not anymore. Well, not so much, anyway. Mostly I do things for my friends, now—'cause what else is so important? Money? Power? Jabba had that, and you know what happened to him. Okay, okay, the point is—your friends are Ã¢â'¬Â¦ your friends. You know?" This

But I was going into Tosche station to pick up some new power converters and Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Luke Skywalker was twice the age of the ten-year-old vaporator, but much less secure.

That's a power outlet, stupid, not an information terminal." Artoo

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

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.