'Creating fun and interesting worlds'

“When I was making‘Star Wars’ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science.  I simply said, ‘I’m going to create a worldthat’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.’”– George Lucas

 Before Lucas became one of the world’s great scriptwriters and filmmakershe wanted to be a racecar driver.  Bornin California in May of 1944, Lucas spent most of his high schoolyears street racing and hanging out at garages. But after nearly being killed in a racing wreck, he lost interest andswitched his focus to . . . Anthropology, Sociology and Archaeology.   Those earlypassions later played a huge part in his creation of the character Indiana Jones.

 

Ever experimenting in his collegecourses Lucas then turned to art, photography and filmmaking, including writingmovie scripts, a skill that has won him numerous awards.

 

Among those award-winning scripts is American Grafitti, a semi-autobiographicalcoming of age story set in the 1960s. Winner of a Golden Globe for Best Writing, the script and subsequentmovie have been preserved in the National Film Registry as "culturally,historically, and aesthetically significant" for the time period theydepict.

 

“There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I didas an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in tellingstories and building things,” Lucas said. “Writing a good story is simply theprocess of creating good characters and putting them into a good plot.” 

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