"In a way the film was made so my father won't think those were wasted years." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas: The Stinky Kid Hits the Big Time' by Stephen Farber, Film Quarterly, Spring, 1974 #GeorgeLucas

"There were no marks and no measurements." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'THX 1138: Made in San Francisco', American Cinematographer, October 1971 #GeorgeLucas

"The cost of a ticket hasn't changed at all." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Lucas Looks Back On Movie-Making', Fresh Air, January 6, 2010 #GeorgeLucas

"I guess Sydney Greenstreet would be a good example." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi', November 1983 #GeorgeLucas

"We're struggling, but we'll be okay." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The Making of Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith' by J.W. Rinzler, April 2005 #GeorgeLucas

"It's my artistic vision." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Beyond Star Wars: What's Next for George Lucas' by Kevin Kelly and Paula Parisi, Wired, February 1997 #GeorgeLucas

"I did THX." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Power of Story: Visions of Independence at 2015 Sundance Film Festival', Jan 29, 2015 #GeorgeLucas

"I don't want her to grow up to be 18 and have her say, 'Hey, Dad, where have you been all my life?'" - GEORGE LUCAS, 'And after 10 years, Lucas is taking a break' by Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune, May 15, 1983 #GeorgeLucas

"He has to recognize the talent in himself, and then he has to work very hard to nourish that talent." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas: Heroes, Myths and Magic', March 1993 #GeorgeLucas

"The plot runs along for a five-year-old who doesn't understand any of the machinations of the thing." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas Wants to Play Guitar as 'Star Wars' Takes a Vacation' by Paul Scanlon, Rolling Stone, July 21, 1983 #GeorgeLucas

"You have to have people you can do it with!" - GEORGE LUCAS, 'San-Diego Comic-Con Panel: Sneak Peek of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art', July 27, 2025 #GeorgeLucas

"Right." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas: Maker of Films', April 1971 #GeorgeLucas

"He didn't get much screentime." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett', November 12, 2021 #GeorgeLucas

"My first job in Hollywood actually was working for the United States government, cutting a film on President Johnson's trip to Asia, with Verna Fields as the supervising editor." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The Making of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi' by John Phillip Peecher, August 1983 #GeorgeLucas

"I don't expect it to do better than Star Wars." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Lucas: It's not 'Titanic' or 'the Second Coming'' by Mike Snider, USA Today, May 10, 1999 #GeorgeLucas

"I'd always write these beautiful romantic lines." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Conversations from the Edge with Carrie Fisher', January 2002 #GeorgeLucas

"It's terrifying." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Space Exploration', James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction, May 7, 2018 #GeorgeLucas

"I'm not able to work that way; I try to cover things, and I try to figure out how to cut it all together later." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays' by Laurent Bouzereau, September 1997 #GeorgeLucas

"It just happened to be in the right place at the right time with the right thing and it skyrocketed." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas: The Force Behind Lucasfilm' by Dan Madsen, Lucasfilm Fan Club Magazine, Issue 6, Winter 1989 #GeorgeLucas

"He's a mysterious character." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Star Wars: An MTV Movie Special', February, 1997 #GeorgeLucas

"But of course if the movie doesn't fit what they think movies should be, it shouldn't be allowed to exist." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Why Is the Force Still with Us?' by John Seabrook, The New Yorker, December 30, 1997 #GeorgeLucas

"When I graduated from eighth grade I got a wood shop Skilsaw, and so I was constantly building." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The Lucas Chronicles' by Paul Chutkow, The San Francisco Examiner, March 21, 1993 #GeorgeLucas

"I don't think so." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'What Happened To Han And Leia? How About Jar Jar? 'Star Wars' Emperor Lucas Speaks' by Larry Carroll, MTV News, May 09, 2005 #GeorgeLucas

"Once we went digital, it was so much easier." - GEORGE LUCAS, ''All Films Are Personal': An Oral History of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace' by Dan Brooks, The Official Star Wars Website, May 24, 2019 #GeorgeLucas

"It's really beyond one person's ability to control everything." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Willow: The Making of an Adventure', May 1988 #GeorgeLucas

"But we also had guys there who did nothing but Republic serials and comic books." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The Man Who Made Star Wars' by Lynda Miles and Michael Pye, The Atlantic, March 1979 #GeorgeLucas

"We have two seasons here - the green season and the yellow season." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'BUT CAN HOLLYWOOD LIVE WITHOUT GEORGE LUCAS?' by Aljean Harmetz, The New York Times, July 13, 1981 #GeorgeLucas

"Because with no limits, an artist can just go berserk, you won't end it." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Lucas is the 'realist' behind 'Star Wars'' by Bob Strauss, The Boston Globe, January 26, 1997 #GeorgeLucas

"I wasn't that much of a Star Trek fan." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Season 3, Episode 160', The Rosie O'Donnell Show, May 5, 1999 #GeorgeLucas

"It's like a commando unit." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Light & Magic, Season 2, Episode 1, Are We Ready for This?', 2025 #GeorgeLucas

"It has a slight anime feel to me." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Clone Wars: Bridging the Saga', March 2005 #GeorgeLucas

"We’ll also have facilities for doing all kinds of animation." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Interview: George Lucas', Bantha Tracks 8, May 1980 #GeorgeLucas

"It's a tragedy." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas: The Star Wars Prequels Interview' by Ian Freer, Empire Magazine, Empire, September 1999 #GeorgeLucas

"It definitely is not gonna be completely different." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Entertainment Tonight', 1993 #GeorgeLucas

"And it's only because I really want to tell this story." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Rethinking Indiana Jones' by Daniel Cerone, Los Angeles Times, March 1, 1992 #GeorgeLucas

"Yeah." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The Conversation, Part II' by Jonathan W. Rinzler, Star Wars Insider Issue 146, December 2013 #GeorgeLucas

"I see Star Wars as taking all the issues that religion represents and trying to distill them down into a more modern and easily accessible construct--that there is a greater mystery out there." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Cinema: Of Myth And Men' by Bill Moyers, Time, April 26, 1999 #GeorgeLucas

"I'd spent a year writing this story." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy', September 2004 #GeorgeLucas

"A lot of things coincided." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The Jedi Master' by Desmond Ryan, The Inquirer Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 29, 1983 #GeorgeLucas

"He ran a stationary store." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas', 60 Minutes, March 28, 1999 #GeorgeLucas

"It's been my experience that the cinematographer is working more in collaboration with the director, than the other people in the group." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Producer muses on ASC, digital, SFX, etc.' by Connie Benesch, Variety, February 23, 1994 #GeorgeLucas

"Doing it the way we do it now, we race through one, and as soon as we finish one, we race into the next one, and we go as fast as we can." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The George Lucas Saga, Chapter 1: A New View' by Kerry O'Quinn, Starlog Number 48, July 1981 #GeorgeLucas

"And so everything I did there, I succeeded at rather wildly." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Charlie Rose', September 09, 2004 #GeorgeLucas

"Critics will say the movie is just an excuse to sell teddy bears, but I don't care." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The Dark Side of George Lucas' by Denise Worrell, Icons : intimate portraits, 1989 #GeorgeLucas #TeddyBearDay

"It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'the father of the force' by Katie Lucas, CosmoGirl, Jun/Jul 2005 #GeorgeLucas

"We're the only culture that mates in cars." - GEORGE LUCAS, '20/20', 1989 #GeorgeLucas

"Finally, the son knows what we already know." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The Making of Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith' by J.W. Rinzler, April 2005 #GeorgeLucas

"You have to be Curt, you have to go into the sixties." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas: The Stinky Kid Hits the Big Time' by Stephen Farber, Film Quarterly, Spring, 1974 #GeorgeLucas

"Nobody can take Star Wars and make Yoda walk, because I own it." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Beyond Star Wars: What's Next for George Lucas' by Kevin Kelly and Paula Parisi, Wired, February 1997 #GeorgeLucas

"There are four or five scripts for Star Wars, and you can see as you flip through them where certain ideas germinated and how the story developed." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The Dark Side of George Lucas' by Denise Worrell, Icons : intimate portraits, 1989 #GeorgeLucas