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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.

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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That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic.
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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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All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.
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I never had a story for the sequels, for the last trilogy. That's not really part of the plan at this point, and I'll be at the age where to do another trilogy would take 10 years. I'd always envisioned it as six movies. When you see it in six parts you'll understand that it really ends at part six.
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The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
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Never tell me the odds!
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That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.
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I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.
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I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.
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Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
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You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.
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I've discovered that most critics themselves are cinematically illiterate. They don't really know much about movies. They don't know the history. They don't know the technology. They don't know anything. So for them to try to analyze it, they're lost.
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I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.
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You can be as rich, and famous, and powerful as you want to be, and it will not bring you happiness. That's said over and over and over, again. It's such a cliché that it hardly needs to be said, but people don't understand that it's actually true.
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I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.
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I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.
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Real love is on the inside. It's somebody you have a common ground with, you share the same values, you share the same interests, you share the same humor, you share all those things that are things that will last you the rest of your life.
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[Star Wars is] designed primarily to make young people think about the mystery. Not to say, 'Here's the answer.' It's to say, 'Think about this for a second. Is there a God? What does God look like? What does God sound like? What does God feel like? How do we relate to God?'
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I must admit I suffered a bit when I first came to England. But then I realised that there was nothing to be intimidated by, everybody had two legs.
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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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