George Lucas Quotes

If a film is good, it will work no matter what.

If it is a good film, the audience will like it. They will take to it if it is made with a certain amount of integrity.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.

I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a bad movie.

I've also shot plenty of films with very small audiences - 'The Sun Also Rises.' I love that film, but I didn't capture the imagination of the audience. I don't know why.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

There's never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad experience on a set is going to lead to a bad movie.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.

I know what a good movie is.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.

It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.

You could say that Iron Man was a second-tier character, and it turned out very successfully. I simply think it's down to the movie itself, and whether people enjoy the movie, are involved in the movie, and that it entertains them. From that point of view, the movie has to stand alone.

I would love to do a rom-com, but they are not good - good and successful doesn't equate to the same thing.

If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.

I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good.

I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience.

I'm proud of 'Miracle at St. Anna' and I loved it; there's no question in my mind it's as good as any movie that came out in 2007.

When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.