George Walton Lucas Jr., é um produtor cinematográfico, roteirista e cineasta, estadunidense. Lucas é mundialmente famoso pelas franquias Star Wars e Indiana Jones. Está entre as pessoas mais ricas e influentes do mundo, sua fortuna é estimada em 5 bilhões de dólares.
“Todo mundo tem talento, é só uma questão de se mover até você descobrir o seu.”
Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is
citado em "George Lucas: An Unauthorized Biography" - Página 14, Janet Riehecky - Heinemann Library, 2001, ISBN 158810057X, 9781588100573 - 56 páginas
“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
Fonte: The Star Wars Trilogy
The George Lucas Interviews at SuperShadow.com (27 June 2005) http://web.archive.org/web/20050630002609/http://www.supershadow.com:80/starwars/lucas/
Fonte: Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace
“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.”
Fonte: The Empire Strikes Back
Fonte: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Movie Storybook
“A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.”
Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykmZp5cgbkU <br class="br">Contexto: One of the fatal mistakes that almost every science-fiction film makes is that they spend so much time on the settings — you know, creating the environment — that they spend film time on it. And you don't have to spend too much film time to create an environment. What they're doing is showing off the amount of work that they generated, and it slows the pace of the film down. And the story is not the settings. The story is the stories, plot. You're always surprised with characters, I mean in film it's even more dramatic than it is in writing, because eventually you actually take a real person and stick them into that character. And that real person brings with him, or her, an enormous package of reality. I mean, Threepio is just a hunk of plastic, and without Tony Daniels in there it just isn't anything at all. In the first film we had maybe 20 colors to paint with, and this time we've had 40 colors to paint with. Well, that doesn't mean it's going to be a better painting. Special effects are just a tool, a means of telling a story. People have a tendency to confuse them as an end to themselves. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
On a test audience screening of THX 1138
Interview with Judy Stone (1971)
Minutes Overtime: George Lucas (2005) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W4Eew8WJoU60
George Lucas, in Marc Lee Film-makers on film: George Lucas http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmmakersonfilm/3642010/Film-makers-on-film-George-Lucas.html, The Telegraph, 14 May 2005 <br class="br">2000s
On a United States Information Agency Film about President Lyndon Johnson's trip to Asia, which he worked on as an editor
1970s, Interview with Judy Stone (1971)
On Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, "Keys to the Kingdom" at Vanity Fair (2 January 2008) https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/02/indianajones200802 <br class="br">2000s
On how American Zoetrope functions
1970s, Interview with Judy Stone (1971)
"Star Wars Raises Questions On U.S. Policy" WBZTV CBS 4 Boston (2005)
