Lucas: "When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.'"

Lucas: "I'm telling the story I want to tell, not the one you want to hear."

Lucas: "There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom."

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

Lucas: "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."

Lucas: "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."

Lucas: "I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, 'You know, there's no sound in outer space.'"

Lucas: "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."

Lucas: "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."

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

Lucas: "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.

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

Lucas: "A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything."

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

Lucas: "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."

Lucas: "Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard."

Lucas: "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."

Lucas: "Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media."

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

Lucas: "None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work."

Lucas: "You can't do it unless you can imagine it."

Lucas: "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."

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

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

Lucas: "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."

Lucas: "Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does."

Lucas: "I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public."

Lucas: "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."

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

Lucas: "All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology."

Lucas: "The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people."