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It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.

George Lucas

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George Lucas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 14
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George Walton Lucas Jr.
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Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.
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I have a strong feeling about interesting people in space exploration. . . . And the only way it's going to happen is to have some kid fantasize about getting his ray gun, jumping into his spaceship, and flying into outer space.
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Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga.
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Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.
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I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.
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You need peers you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from.
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Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.
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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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Never tell me the odds!
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I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.
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The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a compassionate life as opposed to a passionate life.
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I think one of the reasons that Steven (Spielberg) and I have been as successful as we have is because we like the movies. We like to go to the movies. We enjoy movies and we want to make movies like the ones we enjoy.
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The older you get, the less seriously you take criticism. I've gotten to a point now where I ignore it completely. It's just not relevant to me anymore.
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Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel.
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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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Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.
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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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Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
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I haven't met anybody who hasn't been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there's no way to sort of get around that.
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'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.
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