George Lucas

“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.”

“I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.”

“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.”

“If you really love films, and you really want to get the full impact, there's a huge difference between watching something on a small screen with a mediocre sound system and watching it on a giant screen in a giant theater with a huge beautiful sound system. I mean, the difference is electric.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.”

“Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.”

“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.”

“Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”

“Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.”

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

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

“A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.”