I am simply trying to struggle through life trying to do God's bidding.

— George 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.

— George Lucas

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

— George Lucas

I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the public.

— George Lucas

I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

— George Lucas

I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

— George 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 terrible 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.

— George 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.

— George Lucas

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

— George Lucas

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

— George Lucas