Happy Birthday George Lucas!

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Du musst etwas finden, das du so stark willst, das du alle Risiken überwindest, über jede Hürde springst und durch jede Mauer brichst, die immer auf dem Weg zum Erfolg erscheinen. Wenn du diese Entschlossenheit nicht hast, wirst du am ersten großen Hindernis scheitern.

You can't do it unless you can imagine it.

Die Digitaltechnik ist fürs Kino so revolutionär wie die Einführung des Ton- oder des Farbfilms - nicht mehr, nicht weniger.

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

In zwei oder drei Jahren wird es den ersten komplett digitalen Film geben.

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

Ich lese prinzipiell keine Kritiken, denn aufrichtige Analysen finden in den Medien ja doch nicht statt.

The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

Tagträume sind wichtig. Was man sich nicht vorstellen kann, kann man nicht tun.

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.

Drehen ist recht anstrengend. Als ob man den ganzen Tag Fußball spielt.

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

Ich will den Zuschauern den Glauben an das Gute im Menschen zurückgeben.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether it's history, psychology, economics, or architecture - so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn't going to help you unless you have something to say.

Hart zu arbeiten ist sehr wichtig. Du erreichtst nichts, ohne extrem hart zu arbeiten.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Jeder hat Talent, es ist nur erforderlich, dass du dich umsiehst, bis du entdeckt hast, was es ist.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

Es ist sehr wichtig, dass du etwas findest, das dich interessiert, für das du eine tiefe Leidenschaft verspürst, weil du viel Zeit deines Leben dafür wirst widmen müssen.

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

Du musst einfach nur einen Fuß vor den anderen setzen und in Bewegung bleiben. Setze Scheuklappen auf und marschiere genau geradeaus.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

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.'

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

Good luck has its storms.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

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.

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.

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.

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

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

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