GEORGE LUCAS: I was a huge fan of Godard because I was an editor and experimental filmmaker and he was pushing the boundaries. When it came to how to tell a story, Fellini was everything to me, as was Kurosawa. With Kurosawa especially, an American audience was being made to explore a radically new but fascinating foreign culture. What did any of us know about the history of medieval Japan? We were really being dumped into an alien environment. I loved being thrown into the middle of something with no explanation. I assume it’s the same for someone who grew up in a village in China. They would
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