"That was about as much movement as I could get out of it." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Anatomy of a Dewback', August 1997 #GeorgeLucas

"That's ridiculous." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Visionary filmmaker Lucas invents fantasy phenomenon', Yuma Sun, May 2, 1982 #GeorgeLucas

"You just couldn't do it." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Lucas Looks Back On Movie-Making', Fresh Air, January 6, 2010 #GeorgeLucas

"If there's anything I know for sure, it's that the human race knows very little about what's going on." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'And after 10 years, Lucas is taking a break' by Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune, May 15, 1983 #GeorgeLucas

"It's a really great number." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Star Wars: An MTV Movie Special', February, 1997 #GeorgeLucas

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

"I lived on the beach." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Power of Story: Visions of Independence at 2015 Sundance Film Festival', Jan 29, 2015 #GeorgeLucas

"Yeah." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien', May 1, 2007 #GeorgeLucas

"If I had to do it all over again, I'd have to think about it, especially if I knew what I was going to have to give up in order to get it." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas Comes Back to Earth' by Dale Pollock, Los Angeles Times, May 29, 1983 #GeorgeLucas

"You're in a foreign environment." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga', December 1983 #GeorgeLucas

"I mean, you're dealing with a totally unreal situation, and you have to make the audience feel that this exists." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The Jedi Master' by Desmond Ryan, The Inquirer Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 29, 1983 #GeorgeLucas

"That was everything to me." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The George Lucas Saga, Chapter 1: A New View' by Kerry O'Quinn, Starlog Number 48, July 1981 #GeorgeLucas

"There was a lot of work with these movies, and you really need to take a step back in order to make it work." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays' by Laurent Bouzereau, September 1997 #GeorgeLucas

"So then I went to building cars and racing cars." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'San-Diego Comic-Con Panel: Sneak Peek of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art', July 27, 2025 #GeorgeLucas

"The 'prequel' has more plot and less action than Star Wars, and it's more like a soap opera - really Machiavellian, with lots of political intrigue." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The Dark Side of George Lucas' by Denise Worrell, Icons : intimate portraits, 1989 #GeorgeLucas

"If you said, "There are 10,000 people trudging over the hill," well, to accomplish that in real life is a very, very difficult undertaking." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Beyond Star Wars: What's Next for George Lucas' by Kevin Kelly and Paula Parisi, Wired, February 1997 #GeorgeLucas

"I've always had an interest in the more traditional fantasy world of, you know, fairies and goblins and dragons and that sort of thing." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas: Heroes, Myths and Magic', March 1993 #GeorgeLucas

"I had a lot of friends, and I was interested in cars." - GEORGE LUCAS, '20/20', 1989 #GeorgeLucas

"I'm gonna make it first, and then try to sell it." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Conversations from the Edge with Carrie Fisher', January 2002 #GeorgeLucas

"Until I've started the script, it's hard." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The Making of Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith' by J.W. Rinzler, April 2005 #GeorgeLucas

"It's very involved." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Light & Magic, Season 1, Episode 1, Gang of Outsiders', 2022 #GeorgeLucas

"Obviously, that's a very fertile ground for exciting storytelling." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Clone Wars: Bridging the Saga', March 2005 #GeorgeLucas

"He is an actor, David Prowse, and he has a very strong brogue." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas: The Wizard of 'Star Wars'' by Paul Scanlon, Rolling Stone, August 25, 1977 #GeorgeLucas

"It's a valuable market." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas: Maker of Films', April 1971 #GeorgeLucas

"I like to be the editor, the cameraman, the art director, and so on." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Once Upon a Galaxy: A Journal of the Making of The Empire Strikes Back' by Alan Arnold, September 1980 #GeorgeLucas

"I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas: The Star Wars Prequels Interview' by Ian Freer, Empire Magazine, Empire, September 1999 #GeorgeLucas

"They do water better than anyone else." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Lucas: The Titan of tech' by Marco R. della Cava, USA Today, February 23, 2001 #GeorgeLucas

"And there is such an insatiable appetite on the part of the media." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas - hell-raiser to millionaire' by Alice Yarish, The San Francisco Examiner, February 20, 1980 #GeorgeLucas

"The characters are younger." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Entertainment Tonight', 1993 #GeorgeLucas

"Nothing in this world pops into your head fully formed." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Space Exploration', James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction, May 7, 2018 #GeorgeLucas

"Is that a movie?" - 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

"And then later, they were doing this holiday special." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Under the Helmet: The Legacy of Boba Fett', November 12, 2021 #GeorgeLucas

"The Wookiee actually came from my dog, Indiana." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The Making of Star Wars', September 1977 #GeorgeLucas

"When I started making movies, I didn't make them because I wanted to, I made movies because I had to, and I think I've sort of continued that." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas: The Force Behind Lucasfilm' by Dan Madsen, Lucasfilm Fan Club Magazine, Issue 6, Winter 1989 #GeorgeLucas

"As self-interest, it's good to have the best trained people working for you, and the best trained people come from film school." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Lucas tilts at studio tentpoles', The New Yorker, October 4, 2006 #GeorgeLucas

"The music can communicate nuances you can't see; it says things the film doesn't say." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Making 'Star Wars' sing again' by Richard Dyer, The Boston Globe, March 28, 1999 #GeorgeLucas

"Then I have a company - Lucas Learning - that does multimedia for education." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas', 60 Minutes, March 28, 1999 #GeorgeLucas

"I didn't care what kind of movies I made." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'the father of the force' by Katie Lucas, CosmoGirl, Jun/Jul 2005 #GeorgeLucas

"I think he obviously relates a lot more to Phantom Menace than the other films because the hero is his age." - 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

"And Fox thought that was a fair trade." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The Man Who Made Star Wars' by Lynda Miles and Michael Pye, The Atlantic, March 1979 #GeorgeLucas

"They were just not good." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy', September 2004 #GeorgeLucas

"We began as a renegade production unit." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Secret Lair of the Jedi, the Grail and Green Slimers' by David A. Kaplan, The New York Times, July 2, 1989 #GeorgeLucas

"We were looking for people who understand what the future holds and who have a good business sense of how to get there." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'LucasArts taps Komisar' by Kathleen O'Steen and Dan Cox, Variety, November 1, 1993 #GeorgeLucas

"Star Wars has more to do with disclaiming science than anything else." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'George Lucas Goes Far Out' by Stephen F. Zito, American Film, April 1977 #GeorgeLucas #StarWars

"So, I turned out my first script, THX 1138, and it was really terrible, I’m afraid." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Interview: George Lucas', Bantha Tracks 8, May 1980 #GeorgeLucas

"I call it hobby filmmaking, where you just get to do what you want to do, and you don't have to worry about what anyone thinks about it." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'A Conversation with George Lucas' by Richard Corliss, Time, March 14, 2006 #GeorgeLucas

"Obviously, when you get there there's gonna be a big battle, it's that simple." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'The Conversation, Part II' by Jonathan W. Rinzler, Star Wars Insider Issue 146, December 2013 #GeorgeLucas

"I didn't know I was a storyteller." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Charlie Rose', September 09, 2004 #GeorgeLucas

"They shot animals, and studied them against grids." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Universe with Walter Cronkite', July 26, 1980 #GeorgeLucas

"And mostly I don't do interviews." - GEORGE LUCAS, 'Lucas: Film-Maker With the Force' by Paul Rosenfield, Los Angeles Times, June 5, 1977 #GeorgeLucas