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Danh ngôn của George Lucas (Sứ mệnh: 5)

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
Good luck has its storms.
I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.
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.
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.
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.
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?
The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.
You can't do it unless you can imagine it.
I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.
It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.
Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.
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.'
The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.
There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.
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.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.
There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies.
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've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it.
One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.
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.
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.
Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.
Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.
One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.
I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.
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.
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.
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.
I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.'