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George Lucas Biography

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur. Lucas is best known as the creator of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, as well as the founder of Lucasfilm and Industrial Light & Magic. He was the chairman and CEO of Lucasfilm, before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012.

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The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.

Important, Job, Jobs, Teaching, World

'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.

Compromise, Compromising, Death, Facts, Graffiti, Unpleasant

The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the things we believe in. I don't think you can have the 'how' without the 'why. '

Believe, Thinking, Humanity, Humanities, Think

After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.

Giving, Reflection, Sort, Struggle, Struggling

If I make a movie that has a whole bunch of music in it, I get to listen to the music all day long, and I don't have to say, 'Well, I gotta go back to work and I gotta stop listening to the music. ' I get to listen to music and go to work.

Back To Work, Day, Listening, Long, Make, Work

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.

Doctors, Emotional, Hard Work, Movies, Tense, Worth

I am more of a visual person than a verbal person. For me, I think, the excitement is the fact that I found a way of telling the story as I want to tell it, in a medium that I could master.

Stories, Story, Tell, Thinking, Verbal, Want

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

Art, Narrative, Understand, Way

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

Imagine, Motivational, Unless, Visionaries

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

Education, Films, Say, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching

The script is what you`ve dreamed up-this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

Directors, Dreamed, Film, Script, Scripts

I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished.

Finished, Good, Rocks, Think, Thinking, Very Good

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

Would Be, World, Management, Fantasy, Ten

May the Force be with you.

Force, Hollywood Films, Movie, Psychics

We tried to do Yoda in CGI in Episode I, but we just couldn't get it done in time. We couldn't get the technology to work, so we had to use the puppet, but the puppet really wasn't as good as the CGI. So when we did the reissue, we had to put the CGI back in, which was what it was meant to be.

Cgi, Done, Technology, Time, Use

From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.

College, Efforts, Impact, Lasting, Teacher

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

Applause, Dies, Liberty, Sith, Thunderous

Good luck has its storms.

Good, Good Luck, Luck, Storm, Storms

Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.

Caring, Choice, Having, Hero, Self, Sizes

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.

Help, Motivational, Psychology, Say, Secret, Skills

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