110+ George Lucas Quotes On Filmmaking, Force And Star Wars

George Lucas is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as directing the original Star Wars trilogy and the first three Indiana Jones films. He has also been involved in other projects, such as Willow, American Graffiti, and the THX sound system. Following is our collection on famous quotes by George Lucas on filmmaking, force, star wars.

Top 10 George Lucas Quotes

1. In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.
2. May the Force be with you.
3. Always remember, your focus determines your reality.
4. No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
5. I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.
6. I put all of my resources into pushing the evolution in an industry that is notoriously backwards and I enjoy pushing that envelope,.
7. We are all living in cages with the door wide open.
8. The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.
9. Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
10. People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.

George Lucas Image Quotes

May the Force be with you. — George Lucas

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public. — George Lucas

George Lucas Short Quotes

• So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
• Good luck has its storms.
• We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.
• Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.
• The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.
• You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.
• Education is the single most important job of the human race.
• I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.
• You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have.
• Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think.

George Lucas Quotes About Filmmaking

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies. — George Lucas

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

I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a hybrid - a different style of filmmaking to what I call talking head movies. Some people don't get it. Especially the more academic types. — George Lucas

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

There wasn't anything in my life that was going to stop me from making movies. — George Lucas

George Lucas Quotes About Force

Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose — George Lucas

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. — George Lucas

Ultimately the Force is the larger mystery of the universe. And to trust your feelings is your way into that. — George Lucas

George Lucas Quotes About Star Wars

The first script was one of six original stories I had written in the form of two trilogies. After the success of Star Wars, I added another trilogy. So now there are nine stories. The original two trilogies were conceived of as six films of which the first film was number four. — George Lucas

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will. — George Lucas

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. — George Lucas

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent. — George Lucas

Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her. — George Lucas

These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For. — George Lucas

Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts. — George Lucas

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

From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies. — George Lucas

[Star Wars is] designed primarily to make young people think about the mystery. Not to say, 'Here's the answer.' It's to say, 'Think about this for a second. Is there a God? What does God look like? What does God sound like? What does God feel like? How do we relate to God?' — George Lucas

George Lucas Quotes About Happiness

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people. — George Lucas

You can find people who have discovered the fact that it's really helping people, it's really being compassionate toward other human beings that makes you happy, that gives you a spiritual fulfillment - a kind of fulfillment that goes way beyond anything you can buy. — George Lucas

You can be as rich, and famous, and powerful as you want to be, and it will not bring you happiness. That's said over and over and over, again. It's such a cliché that it hardly needs to be said, but people don't understand that it's actually true. — George Lucas

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

George Lucas Quotes About Matter

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. — George Lucas

Follow your bliss. Do the thing where you sit down at 8 a.m. and then you realize you're hungry and you look up and it's 10 p.m. If you can find something you love that much, it doesn't matter what you do. — George Lucas

You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you. — George Lucas

I have a supermarket full of ideas and the challenge is how many ideas can I get in my cart before I'm gone. When you're doing it, you're not focused on success. It's not a matter of modesty. You're simply trying to get all the things done that you want to get done in your life. — George Lucas

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

George Lucas Quotes About Wars

They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes — George Lucas

I thought it [Star Wars] was too wacky for the general public. Right or wrong this is my movie, this is my decision, and this is my creative vision, and if people don't like it, they don't have to see it. — George Lucas

Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years. — George Lucas

STAR WARS is really three trilogies, nine films. The first trilogy covers the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire, the middle trilogy the fall of the Empire, and the last trilogy involves the rebuilding of the Republic. It won't be finished for probably another 20 years. — George Lucas

Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga. — George Lucas

Never tell me the odds! — George Lucas

George Lucas Quotes About Film

The secret to film is that it's an illusion. — George Lucas

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

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

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

Kurosawa was one of film's true greats. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. — George Lucas

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 movie." — George Lucas

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do. — George Lucas

As I talk to film students now especially, I say, "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

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. — George Lucas

I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology. — George Lucas

George Lucas Quotes About Movies

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

I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them. — George Lucas

You're not going to stay in business, the business of making movies very long because you need the resources in order to keep going. So you have to try and find a niche audience or some kind of audience that has the same likes, dislikes and aesthetic sensibilities that you have. — George Lucas

The theme that runs through my movies is the fact that we create barriers for ourselves....because we say, Well, I can't do that. But in the end, you can't do it unless you can imagine yourself succeeding at it. — George Lucas

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse. — George Lucas

Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts. — George Lucas

There are a lot of movies that are badly made that I love, and there are a lot of movies that are just beautifully made but I don't like them. And critics have a tendency - that's all they focus on, which is, "I like it. I don't like it. It's good. It's bad." — George Lucas

I think one of the reasons that Steven (Spielberg) and I have been as successful as we have is because we like the movies. We like to go to the movies. We enjoy movies and we want to make movies like the ones we enjoy. — George Lucas

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

I think there are going to be some social changes that take place due to the Internet, and the availability of the tools to more and more people. I think you are going to find a lot of people re-cutting movies and changing them, making them into their own movies. — George Lucas

George Lucas Famous Quotes And Sayings

May the Force be with you. — George Lucas

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public. — George Lucas

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. — George Lucas

Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives. — George Lucas

All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea. — George Lucas

If you want to be successful in a particular field or endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. It's very important that you find something that you care about, that you have a deep passion for, because you're going to have to devote a lot of your life to it. — George Lucas

Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other. — George Lucas

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

The thing about science-fiction fans and "Star Wars" fans is they're very independent-thinking people. They all think outside the box, but they all have very strong ideas about what should happen, and they think it should be their way. Which is fine, except I'm making the movies, so I should have it my way. — George Lucas

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities. — George Lucas

[In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler. — George Lucas

When people talk to me about the digital divide, I think of it not so much about who has access to what technology as about who knows how to create and express themselves in the new language of the screen. If students aren't taught the language of sound and images, shouldn't they be considered as illiterate as if they left college without being able to read and write? — George Lucas

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

If I'd have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film ... Mostly I just followed my inner feelings and passions ... and kept going to where it got warmer and warmer, until it finally got hot ... Everybody has talent. It's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. — George Lucas

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

I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time. — George Lucas

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

Real love is on the inside. It's somebody you have a common ground with, you share the same values, you share the same interests, you share the same humor, you share all those things that are things that will last you the rest of your life. — George Lucas

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

Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured. — George Lucas

I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain. — George Lucas

I have a strong feeling about interesting people in space exploration. . . . And the only way it's going to happen is to have some kid fantasize about getting his ray gun, jumping into his spaceship, and flying into outer space. — George Lucas

In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a great loss to our society. Our cultural history must not be allowed to be rewritten. — George Lucas

As the workplace becomes more specialized, from offices to medical centers to factories, teams of people must accomplish their work by collaborating with each other. In my work in filmmaking, we need talented individuals with technical skills, but their abilities to communicate and work with others are just as valuable. — George Lucas

I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography school, and I said "Well, that's sort of like photography, maybe that will be interesting." And once I started in that department, I found what it was that I loved and was good at. — George Lucas

From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact. — George Lucas

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

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

The Force is really a way of feeling; it's a way of being with life. It really has nothing to do with weapons. The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells. — George Lucas

Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to the system with is our brain. If we don't use it, and we don't adapt fast enough, we won't survive. — George Lucas

You have to understand that it's a very cooperative world, not only with the environment, with but our fellow human beings. If you do not cooperate, if you do not work together to keep the entire organism going, the whole thing dies, and everybody dies with it. That's a law of nature, and it's existed forever. We're one of the very few creatures that has a choice, and can intellectualize the process. — George Lucas

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

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again? — George Lucas

Impressive, most impressive. (Darth Vadar) — George Lucas

I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race. We have to plan for our collective future - and the first step begins with the social, emotional, and intellectual tools we provide to our children. As humans, our greatest tool for survival is our ability to think and to adapt - as educators, storytellers, and communicators our responsibility is to continue to do so. — George Lucas

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see. — George Lucas

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

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

When a movie comes out, I always go off on a beach so I miss all the craziness that goes on, all the hoopla, and the hype and the success, and how much it's making, or whether it's doing good or whether it's doing bad. I just miss it all. I don't talk to anybody, and a couple weeks later I come back and it's all over with. — George Lucas

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason. — George Lucas

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

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living. When I was making "Star Wars," I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, "I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it." — George Lucas

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned. — George Lucas

Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel. — George Lucas

You have the most important job of anyone today. Our kids need you to advocate for their futures. — George Lucas

All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant. — George Lucas

I was a terrible student in high school and the thing that the auto accident did - and it happened just as I graduated, so I was at this sort of crossroads - but it made me apply myself more, because I realized more than anything else what a thin thread we hang on in life, and I really wanted to make something out of my life. — George Lucas

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

As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So it's just one of those recurring things. I hope this doesn't come true in our country. Maybe the film will waken people to the situation. — George Lucas

I'd like to see education play a larger role in our daily lives, have people come to a larger understanding - a "bigger picture" understanding - of how we fit into the world, and how we fit into the universe. Not necessarily thinking of ourselves, but thinking of others. — George Lucas

Time is more important to me than money. — George Lucas

I have a lot of ideas and I want to be able to work. To me, it's like one of these contests where you get five minutes in a supermarket to take anything off the shelves you want and try to fill your cart up as much as you can. That's the way I look at my work. — George Lucas

I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished. — George Lucas

You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years. — George Lucas

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

I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff. — George Lucas

Life Lessons by George Lucas

1. George Lucas teaches us to never give up on our dreams, no matter how difficult they may seem. He also shows us that hard work and dedication can take us far in life, as he built his own empire from the ground up. Finally, he demonstrates that success is not only measured by financial gain, but also by the positive impact we have on the world.