Top 200 George Lucas Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.”

— George Lucas

52. “I’ve always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers – teachers with very loud voices.”

— George Lucas

53. “My first six years in the business were hopeless. There are a lot of times when you sit and you say “Why am I doing this? I’ll never make it. It’s just not going to happen. I should go out and get a real job, and try to survive.””

— George Lucas

54. “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.”

— George Lucas

55. “Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.”

— George Lucas

56. “People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.”

— George Lucas

57. “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 .”

— George Lucas

58. “Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I’m going to kill her or I’m beginning to like her.”

— George Lucas

59. “It’s not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It’s how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there’s always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.”

— George Lucas

60. “All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.”

— George Lucas

61. “I live a reasonably simple life, off the beaten track.”

— George Lucas

62. “Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.”

— George Lucas

63. “The story being told in ‘Star Wars’ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold...”

— George Lucas

64. “Good luck has its storms.”

— George Lucas

65. “Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view.”

— George Lucas

66. “Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.”

— George Lucas

67. “I’m here, and every day now is an extra day. I’ve been given an extra day so I’ve got to make the most of it.”

— George Lucas

68. “Success is a very difficult thing. It’s much more difficult than one might think.”

— George Lucas

69. “I’m extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.”

— George Lucas

70. “I haven’t met anybody who hasn’t been able to describe years and years and years of very, very difficult struggle through the whole process of achieving anything whatsoever. And there’s no way to sort of get around that.”

— George Lucas

71. “If I had time and a hammer, I’d track down every bootleg copy and smash it.”

— George Lucas

72. “They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes.” Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator.”

— George Lucas

73. “He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.”

— George Lucas

74. “I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life – being a citizen, being part of humanity – to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.”

— George Lucas

75. “Ultimately the Force is the larger mystery of the universe. And to trust your feelings is your way into that.”

— George Lucas

76. “You try to get yourself into a situation where you only have to answer to yourself, where you can ask advice of people and work with your peers and mentors and things to try to do the best job that you can possibly do.”

— George Lucas

77. “If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.”

— George Lucas

78. “Young people don’t have a fantasy life anymore, not the way we did. All they’ve got is Kojak and Dirty Harry. There’s all these kids running around wanting to be killer cops.”

— George Lucas

79. “Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.”

— George Lucas

80. “Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.”

— George Lucas

81. “The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.”

— George Lucas

82. “For ‘Star Wars’ I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.”

— George Lucas

83. “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.”

— George Lucas

84. “On the Internet, all those same guys that are complaining I made a change are completely changing the movie. I’m saying: ‘Fine. But my movie, with my name on it, that says I did it, needs to be the way I want it.’”

— George Lucas

85. “Whenever you’re making a movie, especially when you’re writing, you always have self-doubts.”

— George Lucas

86. “I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.”

— George Lucas

87. “I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.”

— George Lucas

88. “You can’t win, Darth. Strike me down, and I will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.”

— George Lucas

89. “Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It’s the only way we grow.”

— George Lucas

90. “We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.”

— George Lucas

91. “When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it’s a source. They don’t realise it is just one person typing out their opinion.”

— George Lucas

92. “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.”

— George Lucas

93. “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.”

— George Lucas

94. “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.”

— George Lucas

95. “It was the money from ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Jaws’ that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.”

— George Lucas

96. “I am more of a visual person than a verbal person. For me, I think, the excitement is the fact that I found a way of telling the story as I want to tell it, in a medium that I could master.”

— George Lucas

97. “Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.”

— George Lucas

98. “I find,” Vader ventured mildly, “this lack of faith disturbing.”

— George Lucas

99. “You have to have a thick enough skin to cope with the criticism. I’m very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.”

— George Lucas

100. “You may make something you don’t think is very important during your lifetime and it’ll last for a thousand years.”

— George Lucas