Quotes from George Lucas

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

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

Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'

I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.

I've always just followed my own course, whatever I found the most interesting to me at the moment. I've never had a real plan of, "I want to get from here to there, and I've got to do this."

I am more of a visual person than a verbal person. For me, I think, the excitement is the fact that I found a way of telling the story as I want to tell it, in a medium that I could master.

After you've done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They look at your first film and they say, "Oh well, we don't want you anymore."

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.

I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.'

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

Good luck has its storms.

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

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

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.

Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire.

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.

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 to film is that it's an illusion.

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.

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

The Empire Strikes Back

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

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