Top 200 George Lucas Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.”

— George Lucas

152. “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

153. “That’s no moon,” Kenobi breathed softly.”

— George Lucas

154. “An angry electronic twang came from the Artoo unit. “Don’t call me a mindless philosopher,” Threepio snapped back, “you overweight, unstreamlined glob of grease!” Threepio.”

— George Lucas

155. “The Force is with us always!”

— George Lucas

156. “But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences – is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.”

— George Lucas

157. “The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.”

— George Lucas

158. “Be mindful of the future. But not at the expense of the moment.”

— George Lucas

159. “If you look at ‘Blade Runner,’ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.”

— George Lucas

160. “Oh, my. I’d forgotten how much I hate space travel.”

— George Lucas

161. “Storytelling is about two things; it’s about character and plot.”

— George Lucas

162. “I grew up in the era, ‘Don’t trust anybody over 30.’ And, you know, I still feel that. Don’t trust me.”

— George Lucas

163. “My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I’ve got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.”

— George Lucas

164. “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.”

— George Lucas

165. “The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a compassionate life as opposed to a passionate life.”

— George Lucas

166. “Until the time is right, disappear we will.”

— George Lucas

167. “Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.”

— George Lucas

168. “I made lots of movies while in school while everybody else was running around saying, “Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish they’d give me some film.””

— George Lucas

169. “Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They’ve got a new perspective on it, they’ve got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done.”

— George Lucas

170. “I like Star Wars, it’s fun and I enjoy doing it. But it’s definitely not my life. I’m a bigger movie fan than I am Star Wars fan. I like making movies.”

— George Lucas

171. “None of the films I’ve done was designed for a mass audience, except for ‘Indiana Jones.’ Nobody in their right mind thought ‘American Graffiti’ or ‘Star Wars’ would work.”

— George Lucas

172. “Luke: Boy, it’s lucky you have these compartments. Han: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I’d be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous.”

— George Lucas

173. “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.”

— George Lucas

174. “I’ve been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master.”

— George Lucas

175. “I’d be the first person to say I can’t write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I’m not Shakespeare. It’s not designed to be poetic.”

— George Lucas

176. “Film is not an easy occupation. There’s a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.”

— George Lucas

177. “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.”

— George Lucas

178. “It’s now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I’ve always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime.”

— George Lucas

179. “If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.”

— George Lucas

180. “I don’t like you, either. C-3PO.”

— George Lucas

181. “We seemed to be drifting as a society – losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.”

— George Lucas

182. “I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.”

— George Lucas

183. “Film is a very tight little box. If you don’t fit in that box, you’re gone. Television, there’s more room to move around.”

— George Lucas

184. “I’m very proud of all the movies I made. I am very happy with everything I’ve done. I like to watch my movies. Some of them work. Some of them don’t. Some of them people like, most of them they don’t.”

— George Lucas

185. “My success wasn’t based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.”

— George Lucas

186. “I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.”

— George Lucas

187. “I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.”

— George Lucas

188. “You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you’re going to need help, and you never know who you’re going to need it from.”

— George Lucas

189. “These stars marked the moments of the universe. There were aging orange embers, blue dwarfs, twin yellow giants. There were collapsing neutron stars, and angry supernovae that hissed into the icy emptiness. There were borning stars, breathing stars, pulsing stars, and dying stars. There was the Death Star.”

— George Lucas

190. “I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.”

— George Lucas

191. “The easiest job you’ll ever get is to try to make your first film. That’s the easy one to get, is the first film because nobody knows whether you can make a film or not.”

— George Lucas

192. “Although I write screenplays, I don’t think I’m a very good writer. I’m very interested in studying cultures and social issues, but as an academic I don’t think I would have been too successful.”

— George Lucas

193. “Obviously, people have a lot of different dreams of where America should be, and where it should fit into things. Obviously, very few of them are compatible, and very few of them are very compatible with the laws of nature.”

— George Lucas

194. “I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.”

— George Lucas

195. “Over time I began to realize that the level of cinema criticism in the last part of XX century in the United States was pretty low. The institution itself is not what it’s supposed to be, and I realized that I didn’t need to take that seriously.”

— George Lucas

196. “You must try to divorce your actions from conscious control. Try not to focus on anything concrete, visually or mentally. You must let your mind drift, drift; only then you can use the force. You have to enter to a state in which you act on what you sense, not on what you think beforehand. You must cease cognition, relax, stop thinking... let yourself drift... free... free...”

— George Lucas

197. “The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.”

— George Lucas

198. “I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do.”

— George Lucas

199. “I don’t know you anymore! Anakin, you’re breaking my heart! You’re going down a path I can’t follow!”

— George Lucas

200. “There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.”

— George Lucas