Zitat des Tages von George Lucas:
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.
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.
'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.
Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.
Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.
A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.'
It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.
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.
To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?
Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
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.
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.
'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.
Good luck has its storms.
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.
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
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.
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 ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.
In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience.
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 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.
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.
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.
A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.
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.
As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.'
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.
