George Lucas
George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr.is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as the founder of Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic. He was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officerof Lucasfilm, before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth14 May 1944
CityModesto, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.
Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to the system with is our brain. If we don't use it, and we don't adapt fast enough, we won't survive.
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed my inner feelings and passions ... and kept going to where it got warmer and warmer, until it finally got hot ... Everybody has talent. It's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.
There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.
But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.
When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what technology as about who knows how to create and express themselves in the new language of the screen. If students aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read and write?
Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.