451 Quotes by George Lucas

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

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.

Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work!

I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.

There are a few critics overseas, and occasionally a critic will write an astute analysis of the movie. There is value in reading critics that actually have something intelligent to say, but the journalistic community lives in a world of sound bites and literary commerce: selling newspapers, selling books, and they do that simply by trashing things. They don't criticize or analyze them. They simply trash them for the sake of a headline, or to shock people to get them to buy whatever it is they're selling.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

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

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour , so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology .