451 Quotes by George Lucas

All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea ...

Luke, there is no try, there is either do or not do.

After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.

Man your ships and may the force be with you.

I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future -- and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so.

You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down

My life is too short to become a film studio.

The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.

Everybody has talent and it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night - and also something that you have a talent, not a talent for, but skills that you have a natural ability to do very well. And usually those two things go together.