Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. - George Lucas
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. - George Lucas
'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want. - George Lucas
Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated. - George Lucas
None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work. - George Lucas
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. - George Lucas
I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living. - George Lucas
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.' - George Lucas
It was the money from 'Star Wars' and 'Jaws' that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens. - George Lucas
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.' - George Lucas
I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.' - George Lucas
Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around. - George Lucas
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. - George Lucas
I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made. - George Lucas
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. - George Lucas
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. - George S Patton
Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching. - George S Patton
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. - George S Patton
An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. - Harvey S. Firestone
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