George Lucas Film Quotations

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

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

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

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

When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.

Sometimes people are surprised to learn that most of the films I've made don't work. They've been released but nobody has ever seen them. Maybe 40 percent of them are very successful. That's a very high percentage; most people have maybe 10 or 15 percent of their films work.

Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It's abandoned or it's ripped out of your hands, and it's thrown into the marketplace, never finished. It's a very rare experience where you find a filmmaker who says, "That's exactly what I wanted. I got everything I needed. I made it just perfect. I'm going to put it out there."

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.

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.

I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else.

I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the films that I watched throughout my life are preserved, so that my children can see them.

I wanted to make a kids' film that would strengthen contemporary mythology.

I wanted to make abstract films that are emotional, and I still do.

I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.

The script is what you`ve dreamed up-this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.