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

George Lucas

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George Lucas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 14
Actor
Art Collector
Businessperson
Cinematographer
Executive Producer
Film Actor
Film Director
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Film Producer
Modesto
California
George Walton Lucas Jr.
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I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career.
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If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed my inner feelings and passions ... and kept going to where it got warmer and warmer, until it finally got hot ... Everybody has talent. It's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
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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.
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The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people.
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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.
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I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.
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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.
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As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So it's just one of those recurring things. I hope this doesn't come true in our country. Maybe the film will waken people to the situation.
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'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.
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We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn't get it done in time. We couldn't get the technology to work, so we had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn't as good as the CGI. So when we did the reissue, we had to put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be.
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For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.
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If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.
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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.
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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!'
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