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I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.'

~George Lucas

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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

Topics: Ask Decision Decisions Director Hour How Know Make Makes Me Right Right Decision Say Students Them You

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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

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

~George Lucas

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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.

~George Lucas

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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

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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.

~George Lucas

Topics: After Directions Experience Filmmaking Images Infinitely Laying Liberating Manipulate Move Opposed Other Photographs Still Take Taking Them Things I Can

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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.

~George Lucas

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Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country.

~George Lucas

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As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.'

~George Lucas

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: May 14th, 1944

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