Talk:George Lucas

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 * A movie is never finished, only abandoned.


 * Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you imagine it.


 * Good luck has its storms.


 * I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.


 * It's not like the old 'Star Wars'. This one's a little bit more emotional. We like to describe Episode III as Titanic in space. It's a tearjerker.


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


 * A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal, something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 in the morning, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night - and something that you have a natural ability to do very well.


 * Special effects are just a tool: a means of telling a story. People have a tendency to confuse them as an ends unto themselves. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing. ( @9:39)


 * Remember in the end, John, you're not looking at the background, you're not watching the Pods, you're listening to the music.
 * George Lucas to John Knoll


 * If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.
 * On the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special, at a Star Wars fan convention

Repaired

 * I've restored the quote about special effects because a better source has come to light. -- Kendrick7 (talk) 15:35, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Quotes about Lucas

 * these likely originate in some interview — but their provision in an IMDb profile is not an adequate source


 * I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg — I don't usually admit this publicly — because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it — to use it as a way of luring audiences in.
 * Terry Gilliam IMDB profile


 * Nooo! Leave that to George Lucas, he' s really mastered the CGI acting. That scares me! I hate it! Everybody is so pleased and excited by it. Animation is animation. Animation is great. But it's when you're now taking what should be films full of people, living thinking, breathing, flawed creatures and you're controlling every moment of that, it's just death to me. It's death to cinema, I can't watch those Star Wars films, they're dead things.
 * Terry Gilliam on CGI IMDB profile