George Lucas

"Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality."

"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."

"The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people."

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

"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."

"Good luck has its storms."

"I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones."

"I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding."

"I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest."

"I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public."

"I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.'"

"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'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."

"I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies."

"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."

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

"Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot."

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

"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."

"The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie."

"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."

"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's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies."

"Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard."

"You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead."