Quotes from George Lucas

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.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

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.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

I'm 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.

Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.

In my films, all the great things are put together. It's not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big Sundae.

I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.

If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there's a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.

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

You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.

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

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

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

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

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.

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 you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

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

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 didn't care what kind of movies I made.

'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else.

I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.'