George Lucas Quotes About Technology

Quotes about: Technology

• I've discovered that most critics themselves are cinematically illiterate. They don't really know much about movies. They don't know the history. They don't know the technology. They don't know anything. So for them to try to analyze it, they're lost.

  George Lucas

  Technology, Trying, Lost

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

• 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

  Writing, College, Thinking

• 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

  Artist, Technology, Perspective

  Source: movieweb.com

• All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour , so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology .

  George Lucas

  Art, Wall, Technology

• Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

  George Lucas

  Technology, Media, Stories

  "Beyond Star Wars" by Kevin Kelly and Paula Parisi, www.wired.com. February 01, 1997.

• 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

  Thinking, Technology, Digital

  "Beyond Star Wars" by Kevin Kelly and Paula Parisi, www.wired.com. February 01, 1997.

• 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

  Art, Technology, Creating

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

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

  George Lucas

  Moving, Artist, Technology

• 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

  Technology, Cameras, Firsts

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

• 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

  Teaching, Learning, Technology

  "Lucas starts new educational crusade / Magazine seeks to spur change in the classroom" by Dan Fost, www.sfgate.com. October 17, 2004.

• We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn't get it done in time. We couldn't get the technology to work, so we had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn't as good as the CGI. So when we did the reissue, we had to put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be.

  George Lucas

  Technology, Done, Puppets

  "5 Questions With George Lucas: Controversial 'Star Wars' Changes, SOPA and 'Indiana Jones 5'". Interview with Alex Ben Block, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 9, 2012.

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