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
It's very important not to do what your peers think you should do, not do what your parents think,your teachers or even your culture. Do what's inside of you.
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.
A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.
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.
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
You can't do it unless you can imagine it.
Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
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.
No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle.
When I started to write it, it got to be too big, it got to be 250, 300 pages, ... I said, well, I can't do this. The studio will never allow this. I will take the first half, make a movie out of that, and then I was determined to come back and finish the other three, or other two stories.
We're very excited about the opening of the new studio,
It would have been easy to establish paternity, but because he didn't, now Chris is likely going to suffer the consequences.
That way, we built this more interesting character.