Tutorials Editing sandbox Things to do Status article nominations Featured article nominations Good article nominations Comprehensive article nominations. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? George Lucas. View source. History Talk Do you like this video? Play Sound. Put it back together, right now! I'm just the sculptor setting it free. He is the first person that had digital photography, he was the first person to do completely CG characters. The whole notion of not having even a print [version of the film], of having everything be 0's and 1's, was all George.
Not to mention EditDroid, which turned into Avid, Pixar was spawned out of their laboratories at Lucasfilm, so he is arguably the center of the Big Bang for everything that I'm doing. It's building on the shoulders of what he was able to innovate. Of some aspect of it? To me, it's not the same thing as a world full of human beings. There's something gone, there's something missing.
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Thalberg Award Recipient. TV Movie documentary Self. It's on both sides, like we were married and we got divorced. It's as close a relationship as I've had with anybody. If you can tune into the fantasy life of an year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business. I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that 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 was amazed by what he Scorsese did with it and where he went.
It was terrific. The parallels between what we did in Vietnam and what we're doing in Iraq now are unbelievable. And I'm gonna do it!! It's like watching Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods , any genius you can name. Part of the reason I went back to tell the prequel, of how Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader, is that it's an interesting story and a fun one to tell.
Because it is the story of how a good person turns bad. Thank you all. This is a very, very important award for me. Star Wars, oddly enough, doesn't really get that many awards. I'm not a big favorite with the critics, but who listens to them?
I'm not a big industry favorite either, but of course they are a bunch of studio executives. The most important people for any filmmaker, the reason that I make films, is for you! The audience rules! Thank you. Thank you very much! That basically will not end up on the top chart. You have to get 10 million people on the first weekend. And if you don't do it in two days, you're basically out of the theaters and into the DVD market. There's just an ecology there.
If you're a mouse, don't expect to kill a lion, because it ain't gonna happen. If you want to have that kind of power, it's better to be a lion, because the mice are fine - you can have a life and everything - but the lions are the ones out there prowling and scaring the hell out of everybody. There is value in reading critics that actually have something intelligent to say, but the journalistic community lives in a world of sound bites and literary commerce: selling newspapers, selling books, and they do that simply by trashing things.
They don't criticize or analyze them. They simply trash them for the sake of a headline, or to shock people to get them to buy whatever it is they're selling. I'm very self-critical and I have a lot of friends that I trust who are film directors and writers and people in my profession.
I trust them to be extremely critical but I trust their opinion; their opinion is thoughtful, knowledgeable. I also know them personally so I know the psychological slant they are putting on it. I know what their tastes are and I can say, "Well that's great for them but that's not great for me.
I realize it was a rather depressing statement. People really weren't interested in a depressing statement. Being a pessimist doesn't seem to accomplish anything. My wife was very upset that I didn't put my own dog in the movie; so I said I'd put Indiana's spirit in the next one.
And that's how the "Wookiee" came into being. And it's not. It's just a movie. Just like the other movies. You probably have fond memories of the other movies. But if you went back and looked at them, they might not hold up the same way your memory holds up You're not going to get a lot of accolades All you can do is lose.
Honestly, everyone feels you have to talk about yourself all the time. They say I'm introverted because I don't give many interviews. But I don't give many interviews because I don't make many films.
And I say, "I can't help it if Hollywood copies. I am the father of our Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope movie world - the filmed entertainment, the features and now the animated film and television series. And I'm going to do a live-action television series. Those are all things I am very involved in: I set them up and I train the people and I go through them all.
I'm the father; that's my work. Then we have the licensing group, which does the games, toys and books, and all that other stuff. I call that the son - and the son does pretty much what he wants. Then we have the third group, the holy ghost, which is the bloggers and fans. They have created their own world. I worry about the father's world. The son and holy ghost can go their own way. My greatest regret in my career is that John [ John Landis ] was unable to direct Howard the Duck I feel the movie would have been far more successful and saved me the years of hardship following its release.
People think of me as a sort of pathological, Howard Hughes -type guy sitting in a hotel room, which is definitely not so. I didn't have to use rubber masks. I could build digital characters that can act and perform and walk around and interact with actors. I can use digital sets. I can paint reality. In essence, it means that cinema has gone from being a photographic medium to a painterly one. I'm glad Jim is doing it - there are only a few people in the world who are nuts enough to.
It's a lot of work. I do believe Jim will take this further out than anyone's ever conceived of. His ability to transform a vision into a powerful work of art is unparalleled. Lucas's parents sold retail office supplies and owned a walnut ranch in California. His experiences growing up in the sleepy suburb of Modesto and his early passion for cars and motor racing would eventually serve as inspiration for his Oscar-nominated low-budget phenomenon, American Graffiti Before young Lucas became obsessed with the movie camera, he wanted to be a race car driver, but a near-fatal accident in his souped-up Fiat just days before his high school graduation quickly changed his mind.
Instead, he attended community college and developed a passion for cinematography and camera tricks. Following the advice of a friend, he transferred to the University of Southern California's film school. There, he produced a short futuristic sci-fi film called Electronic Labyrinth: THX 4EB , and garnered a comfortable spot under the wing of Francis Ford Coppola, who took an active interest in unleashing new filmmaking talent. Coppola convinced Warner Brothers to make a feature-length version of the film, and although a few critics recognized some philosophical depth behind all the technical wizardry, THX re-titled flopped terribly in its release.
Although intimidated by the failure of his first film, THX , Lucas went back to work on his next project, American Graffiti. Released in , the film featured burgeoning young talents such as Ron Howard , Richard Dreyfuss and Harrison Ford , and was recognized as a stunning portrait of listless American youth in depicting, in Lucas's own words, "a warm, secure, uninvolved life.
It earned five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Director for Lucas, and is still considered one of the most successful low budget features ever made. Now that Lucas had won back the confidence of his supporters, he set out to make a children's Saturday morning serial that would be part fairy tale, part Flash Gordon and complete fantasy and adventure set in the imaginary frontier of outer space.
The project eventually evolved into a full-length feature entitled Star Wars. Released in May , Star Wars blew audiences away with its awe-inspiring special effects, fantastical landscapes, captivating characters the erroneous pairing of two bumbling droids providing, ironically, the most heart and comic relief and the familiar resonance of popular myth and fairy tale.
He eventually built his own moviemaking "empire" outside of the controlling influence of Hollywood in the hills of Marin Country, California. Overlapping with his work on Star Wars , Lucas developed a new adventure series featuring a tough but humorous archaeologist named Indiana Jones.
He cast Star Wars antihero Ford in the title role, and Steven Spielberg signed on as director for Raiders of the Lost Ark , the first film in the franchise.
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