George Lucas Net Worth

George Lucas's Quotes

• A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
• The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
• The script is what you've dreamed up-this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.
• I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.
• [on the making of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)] When you're directing, you have to get up at four thirty [A.M], have breakfast at five, leave the hotel at six, drive an hour to location, start shooting at eight, and finish shooting around six. Then you wrap, go to your office, and set up the next day's work. You get back to the hotel about eight or nine, hopefully get a bite to eat, then you go to your room and figure out your homework, how you're going to shoot the next day's scenes, then you go to sleep. The next morning it starts all over again.

Interesting Facts about George Lucas

1. Three adopted children: Amanda Lucas (b. 1981) (with ex-wife Marcia Lucas), Katie Lucas (b. 1988) and Jett Lucas (b. 1993).
2. Graduated from USC's school of cinema (1962)
3. Shortly before graduating high school, he was involved in a high speed car accident that left him hospitalized and near death.
4. Lucas provided all the funding for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) and Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
5. For 2nd consecutive year, ranked No. 4 on Entertainment Weekly's annual list of "101 Most Powerful People in Entertainment." Ranked just ahead of Steven Spielberg and just behind the power couple that runs the Time Warner Turner media empire.
6. Sits on USC School of Cinema-Television's Board of Councilors.
7. In the 2001 edition of the Forbes' "400 Richest People In America", it is reported that Lucas' fortune is $3 billion.
8. He is a diabetic.
9. He has created the image of always being on the cutting edge of technology. However, when he writes, he does it in longhand in a loose leaf binder rather than on a word processor.
10. He was so impressed with relatively unknown stage actor James Wheaton that he cast him over studio objections in the voiceover role of "OMM" in THX 1138 (1971). The studio wanted Orson Welles to play the role.
11. His script for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) was turned down by every major Hollywood studio, the reason being that no one would want to see it. In a last ditch attempt, Lucas approached 20th Century Fox who decided to go ahead with the script even though they were convinced it would flop. Star Wars ended up becoming the highest grossing movie ever released at that time.
12. Sold Lucasfilm's Computer Graphics Division to Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs, and it later became Pixar Animation Studio.
13. His name backwards is Egroeg Sacul. This name is also used in the Disney theme park ride Star Tours (1987).
14. Rewrote the ending of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) to tighten it up due to the fact that the scene would have been too busy. It originally ended with the mine-car chase that was later added to Indiana Jones en de tempel des doods (1984).
15. Conceived Indiana Jones while on vacation with his friend Steven Spielberg in Hawaii. Lucas decided to produce while Spielberg would direct.
16. Was engaged to longtime girlfriend Linda Ronstadt.
17. With THX 1138 (1971) and Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Lucas reinvented the way sound was used in films. Using it in both a linear and abstract way, to tell the story, he pushed sound design to the forefront of the filmmaking process.
18. Refuses to put "critics quotes" on his movie posters. Something that infuriates many critic societies.
19. Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 605-610. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
20. He based the character of Han Solo on his friend Francis Ford Coppola.