George Lucas

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. ”

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. ”

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom. ”

I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it. ”

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media. ”

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