Top 200 George Lucas Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.”

— George Lucas

102. “A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.”

— George Lucas

103. “Suddenly everything came together in one place. All my likes, everything I actually seemed to have talent for was right there. I said, “Hey, this is it. I can do this really well. I really love to do it.””

— George Lucas

104. “I like racing. I love the speed and I’m a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else.”

— George Lucas

105. “I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.”

— George Lucas

106. “Who’s the more foolish; the fool, or the fool who follows him?”

— George Lucas

107. “You don’t know how hard I found it, signing the order to terminate your life.”

— George Lucas

108. “For the third trilogy, I don’t know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.”

— George Lucas

109. “People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn’t an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that’s all it is.”

— George Lucas

110. “I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.”

— George Lucas

111. “If I make a movie that has a whole bunch of music in it, I get to listen to the music all day long, and I don’t have to say, ‘Well, I gotta go back to work and I gotta stop listening to the music.’ I get to listen to music and go to work.”

— George Lucas

112. “I’m aware that dialogue isn’t my strength. I use it as a device. I don’t particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.”

— George Lucas

113. “I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.”

— George Lucas

114. “The older you get, the less seriously you take criticism. I’ve gotten to a point now where I ignore it completely. It’s just not relevant to me anymore.”

— George Lucas

115. “Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.”

— George Lucas

116. “The script is what you’ve dreamed up-this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.”

— George Lucas

117. “Although I write screenplays, I don’t think I’m a very good writer.”

— George Lucas

118. “There wasn’t anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies.”

— George Lucas

119. “You can’t put a title card at the head of the movie and say, “Well, we really had a bad problem. You know, the actor got sick and it rained this day and we had a hurricane.””

— George Lucas

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

— George Lucas

121. “I like making movies. I like the process. I like trying out new ideas, and if they don’t work, they don’t work. That’s the reason I generated the money in the first place, to be able to try things. That’s where I spend my money.”

— George Lucas

122. “I think that Lethal Weapon-style dialogue is overused, it’s a necessary aspect of high action films where you have to have the smart retort. You have to say “I’ll be back baby” and stuff. It’s not my style.”

— George Lucas

123. “These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For.”

— George Lucas

124. “Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.”

— George Lucas

125. “Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, ‘You’re not using today’s tools! Wake up!’”

— George Lucas

126. “Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing.”

— George Lucas

127. “I’ve had much more down in my life than I’ve had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, “What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career.””

— George Lucas

128. “That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.”

— George Lucas

129. “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.”

— George Lucas

130. “In my films, all the great things are put together. It’s not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big Sundae.”

— George Lucas

131. “When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.”

— George Lucas

132. “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.”

— George Lucas

133. “No,” Threepio responded, “I don’t think he likes you at all.” A second beep failed to alter the stern tone in the taller robot’s voice. “No, I don’t like you, either.”

— George Lucas

134. “Why you no good, scruffy looking, nerf herder!”

— George Lucas

135. “When my films don’t work it’s usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn’t work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.”

— George Lucas

136. “From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies.”

— George Lucas

137. “I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie’s chances for success, 1997.”

— George Lucas

138. “To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?”

— George Lucas

139. “I must admit I suffered a bit when I first came to England. But then I realised that there was nothing to be intimidated by, everybody had two legs.”

— George Lucas

140. “Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.”

— George Lucas

141. “There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.”

— George Lucas

142. “You should own stuff, but make sure they are indispensable stuff. A family of three can simplify to the point of owning just three beds, two couches, three dressers, one table, few chairs, one desk, eight plates, eight glasses, eight bowls and some toys and books for the kids.”

— George Lucas

143. “I’ve always just followed my own course, whatever I found the most interesting to me at the moment. I’ve never had a real plan of, “I want to get from here to there, and I’ve got to do this.””

— George Lucas

144. “No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance – and a whole lot of luck.”

— George Lucas

145. “I’m not in a contest. I make movies. I’m not a racehorse...”

— George Lucas

146. “There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult.”

— George Lucas

147. “Simplifying your meals means shunning all unhealthy choices like French fries, fatty foods, sugary foods, salty foods, etc. Simplifying your eating habits will save you from lots of troubles in the long run.”

— George Lucas

148. “I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.”

— George Lucas

149. “One of the most telling things about film school is you’ve got a lot of students wandering around saying, “Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish I could make a move.””

— George Lucas

150. “I have a bad feeling about this...”

— George Lucas