George Lucas Quotes & Sayings

“You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.”

“Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.”

“If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.”

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

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

“You can't do it unless you can imagine it.”

“Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.”

“The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.”

“I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.”

“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.”