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"I thought it was too wacky for the general public."
―George Lucas, on Star Wars^[src]

"Star Wars will never be on home video."

―George Lucas, circa 1978/1979

"The scenes at the homestead, the rain and then the storm and everything had made the dried lake bed that we were working on very wet and muddy, and so a lot of the trucks got stuck in the mud. And then we got the Tunisian Army to help with their giant tank tow trucks to try to pull out some of the trucks, and they got stuck, and then they got some big tracked vehicles, and they got stuck, and so everything sat there for about two weeks while the lake dried out."
―George Lucas, on commentary for Star Wars^[src]

"I think if I can get a room full of people and they enjoy it, then I've done whatever I hoped to do."
―George Lucas, about Star Wars^[src]

"Star Wars is not dead. It's gonna get better and better."
―George Lucas^[src]

"The best part of the movies, 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones,' too, is that I still love to watch them, just like anybody else does. If they're on TV and I turn it on halfway through, I can't turn it off, even if I've seen it a million times."
―George Lucas^[src]

"After Star Wars was released, it became apparent that my story — however many films it took to tell — was only one of thousands that could be told about the characters who inhabit its galaxy. But these were not stories that I was destined to tell. Instead they would spring from the imagination of other writers, inspired by the glimpse of a galaxy that Star Wars provided. Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga."
―George Lucas, from the introduction of Splinter of the Mind's Eye, 1996^[src]

"Oh my God, your movie is going to be so much more successful than Star Wars. This is gonna be the biggest hit of all time."
―George Lucas, to Steven Spielberg, regarding Close Encounters of the Third Kind^[src]

"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...."

―Opening text to Star Wars^[src]

"I have bad droid karma."

―George Lucas, dealing with R2-D2^[src]

"He kisses her now with slow, hot lips. He takes his time, as though he had forever, bending her body backward. She has never been kissed like this before."
―Han and Leia's kiss, Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays^[src]

"The Force gives you the power to have extrasensory perception and to be able to see things and hear things, read minds and levitate things. It is said that certain creatures are born with a higher awareness of the Force than humans. Their brains are different; they have more midi-chlorians in their cells."
―George Lucas, establishing guidelines for the Expanded Universe in 1977^[src]

"I manage 'action' and 'cut' and 'faster' and 'more intense,' and then, uh, mostly I sit there looking miserable and quiet."
―George Lucas, describing his directing technique in documentary The Beginning: Making Episode I^[src]

"I don't read that stuff. I haven't read any of the novels. I don't know anything about that world. That's a different world than my world."
―George Lucas, on the Star Wars Legends^[src]

"I know this is gonna work. I know it's gonna work because it's impossible."
―George Lucas, in the planning stages of The Phantom Menace^[src]

"Beyond the movies, his artwork has inspired at least two generations of younger artists—all of whom learned through Ralph that movies are designed. Like me, they were thrilled by his keen eye and creative imagination, which always brought concepts to their most ideal plateau. In many ways, he was a generous father to a conceptual art revolution that was born of his artwork, and which seized the imaginations of thousands and propelled them into the film industry. In that way, we will all be benefiting from his oeuvre for generations to come. Beyond that, I will always remember him as a kind and patient, and wonderfully talented, friend and collaborator."
―George Lucas, on the late Ralph McQuarrie^[src]

Mark Hamill: "You traitors! George, how could you do that?"

George Lucas: "It's a business, kid."

―Mark Hamill confronts George Lucas about Lucasfilm Ltd.'s involvement with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan^[src]

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