George Lucas Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

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

  George Lucas

  Movie, Secret Love, Film

• Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

  George Lucas

  Film, Easy, Hard

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• The script is what you`ve dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

  George Lucas

  Directors, Scripts, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.

  George Lucas

  Thinking, Different, Done

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• May the Force be with you.

  George Lucas

  Movie, Film History, Psychics

  Star Wars (motion picture) (1977)

• 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

  Photography, Crazy, Mean

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• 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

  Motivational, Skills, Psychology

  "the force". Interview with Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. June 29, 2010.

• 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

  Ice Cream, Together, Kind

• 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

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

• Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does.

  George Lucas

  Psychology, Doe, Culture

• 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

  Stars, War, Fall

• 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

  Art, Moving, Passion

• I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out of my life wasn't really a priority. But the accident allowed me to apply myself at school. I got great grades. Eventually I got very excited about anthropology and about social sciences and psychology, and I was able to push my photography even further and eventually discovered film and film schools.

  George Lucas

  Photography, School, Ideas

• I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema verité, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that's the film making that I was interested in.

  George Lucas

  Character, Tone, Avant Garde

• 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

  Talking, Silent Films, People

  "Star Wars archive: George Lucas 1999 interview". Interview with Ian Freer, www.empireonline.com. September 1999.

• I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

  George Lucas

  Powerful, School, Care

  "the force". Interview With Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. June 29, 2010.

• 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

  Stars, War, Two

  "The long, winding, and shapeshifting trail to episodes VII, VIII & IX" by J.W. Rinzler, www.starwars.com. October 30, 2012.

• 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

  Survival, Important, Able

• 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

  Moving, School, Wish

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.

  George Lucas

  Jobs, Struggle, Writing

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

• 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

  Baby, Smart, Thinking

  "Star Wars archive: George Lucas 1999 interview". Interview with Ian Freer, www.empireonline.com. September 1999.

• 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

  Stars, War, Mind

  "George Lucas on 'Star Wars,' 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' and his own legacy". Interview with Steve Silberman, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

• It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga of the Skywalkers and Jedi Knights unfolded, I began to see it as a tale that could take at least nine films to tell - three trilogies - and I realized, in making my way through the back story and after story, that I was really setting out to make the middle story.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Writing

• I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

  George Lucas

  Emotional, Film, Abstract

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Running, School, Giving

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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