George Lucas

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. ”

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present. ”

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality. ”

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them. ”

There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things. ”

I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.' ”

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does. ”

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again? ”

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot. ”

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public. ”