George Lucas
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.Collection: Art
I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.Collection: Movies
Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.Collection: Work
I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.Collection: God
When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.'Collection: Science
If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.Collection: Movies
I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.Collection: Movies
'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.Collection: Inspirational
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.Collection: Learning
You can't do it unless you can imagine it.Collection: Imagination
I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.'Collection: Space
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.Collection: Truth
The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.Collection: Design
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.Collection: Science
It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.Collection: Movies
The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.Collection: Hope
I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.Collection: Car
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.Collection: Motivational
I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.Collection: Movies
The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.Collection: Architecture
Good luck has its storms.Collection: Chance
There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.Collection: Society
Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.Collection: Movies
One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.Collection: Imagination
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.Collection: Fear
The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.Collection: Movies
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.Collection: Movies
I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.Collection: Movies
The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.Collection: Power
Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.Collection: Communication
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?Collection: Age
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.Collection: Technology
Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.
A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.'
Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.
I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.'
If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.
Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.
'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.
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.
I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.
One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.
Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience.
'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.
A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.
I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.