If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and... by George Lucas

If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.

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I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

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'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, s... by George Lucas

'Young Indiana Jones' was one of the happiest times I ever had, so I love television.

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It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga of the Skywalkers and Jedi Knights unfolded, I began to see it as a tale that could take at least nine films to tell - three trilogies - and I realized, in making my way through the back story and after story, that I was really setting out to make the middle story.

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One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

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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.

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In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience.

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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.

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I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

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Impressive, most impressive. (Darth Vadar) by George Lucas

Impressive, most impressive. (Darth Vadar)

For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.

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Changes are not unusual - I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it's the end of the world.

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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.

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One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.

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From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films,... by George Lucas

From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good write... by George Lucas

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

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I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

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Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood. by George Lucas

Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.

As you go through history, I didn't think it was going to get quite this close. So it's just one of those recurring things. I hope this doesn't come true in our country. Maybe the film will waken people to the situation.

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No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

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If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

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