George Lucas Writing and Directing Tips from Star Wars

10 George Lucas Screenwriting Tips from Star Wars and Indiana Jones for Aspiring Screenwriters and Filmmakers. George Lucas is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucasfilm. He sold Lucasfilm to The Walt Disney Company in 2012 in a deal worth over $4 billion.
5 EXTRA TIPS from George Lucas and many more: / outstandingscreenplays
0:00 - Intro
1:07 - 01 - You don’t invent technology and then figure out what to do with it. First you come up with an artistic problem and then you invent technology in order to tell the story you want and to realise your vision.
2:22 - 02 - If you wrote a script that’s too ambitious, try first separating part of the story and produce it as an independent film. If that film is successful, you can then produce sequels and prequels and create your own universe.
3:31 - 03 - Part of making movies is that you get attacked in very personal ways. But you have to stick to your vision. If you want to paint your house white, stick to it, even if someone else says it should be green.
4:37 - 04 - In your career and your life pursue joy rather than pleasure. Joy might be on a lower scale, but it will last forever.
7:30 - 05 - Leaving and selling your passion project might be hard. But once you decide to move on, you never look back and start working 100% on the new project.
11:00 - 06 - Skip the over descriptive beginning. Start right in the middle of the action, so the audience isn’t overwhelmed with exposition right from the start.
12:18 - 07 - When you write a scene listen to music and write to the music. Then choose a composer who will be able to transfer your vision into a thematic score.
14:10 - 08 - Always try to write your story in a way that it’ll be about both - the big important global issues as well as individual personal themes.
15:16 - 09 - No decision is the worst decision. If you have a passion, decide and pursue it. Don't wait long enough so that others will make decisions for you.
16:30 - 10 - If it’s appropriate for your story leave the ending purposefully ambiguous so that the viewers will DEBATE about it long after they leave the theatre.
17:03 - Outro and Extra Tips
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[@MahmoudAhmed-jy5qz]

Thank you, George Lucas is my hero.

[@darthgoldustgamingandvlogg8674]

Same

[@user-xx6vy9ri8p]

George Lucas was the chief editor on the original Star Wars. He oversaw the entire process and edited the acclaimed gunport sequence himself. His wife Marcia only edited a third of the movie and left to work on another movie before the final edit was even completed. There were two other editors who edited the other 2/3 of the movie. The notion that Lucas had nothing to do with the editing of the original movie, that he's a terrible editor, or that his wife singlehandedly saved from the movie from him--it's all a myth.

[@ranakin9000]

Holy shit someone said it.

[@user-xx6vy9ri8p]

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[@ranakin9000]

@@user-xx6vy9ri8p Wow dude, I'm impressed, this took the words right outa my mouth.

[@user-xx6vy9ri8p]

@@miller_6700 Да.

[@aliensoup2420]

Well yeah, supervising the editing is what a director does. But if Marcia edited 1/3 of the movie, and the other 2 editors edited 2/3 of the movie, what was left for George to edit, besides the gunport sequence, which was storyboarded and pre-visualized with old war footage before the visual effects were shot.

[@Waqulah]

The more I learn about Him, the more I appriciate his work.

[@jonmolnar5440]

I write to music as well. Helps with seeing the story in your mind before you commit to a screenplay.

[@musstakrakish]

Helps me get get the mood and style of the story I'm telling.

[@happyiglu]

this guy is straight up inspiring, true authentic dude and straight to the point

[@petirgarda1005]

04:49 The things he spoke about differences between joy and pleasure really hit me, and how both of them fused together to be called happiness, and also love this bit from him, how life is fluid 15:17 . I learn a lot from these clips, thank you for making it.

[@johnwebb4499]

It felt like Disney didn't even care about the Star Wars movies 7-9. They just wanted the Name. So they can make a Disney movie and call it Star Wars. I felt so bad for Mark Hamill having to go through that. For the work.

[@darthgoldustgamingandvlogg8674]

Lucas is underrated

[@johnallencook5127]

I've got writing work to do . ...✏📖

[@MrArtist1971]

3:50 George: It can't get any worse. Kathleen Kennedy: Hold my martini.

[@michaelbaker2552]

Tip number 1: Never, ever, sell anything to Disney, they'll just fuck it up!

[@08prema]

MTFBWY

[@Jared_Wignall]

George Lucas is a man with a vision and does what he can to see that vision through till the end. He’s made some of the best films ever made and has done so much to help filmmaking it’s truly astounding. Thank you for this video man!

[@oracleowen]

love George

[@nickbuckley4371]

I do the same I write in the middle then get a beginning and ending

[@fundhund62]

What a genius!

[@adamplotagonart]

Yours heartily share recommend

[@vishantkr]

Suggest u to make on James Cameron

[@dimitri6000]

One thing about George is that he likes to revise the past and make it sound like he figured it all out in one go, but the actual development of Star Wars was a very tedious process for Lucas who suffered emotionally and physically. While it's nice to listen to older George, the younger George would've told a much different story about the process. Still, what a legend and what a great man.

[@antoniusyoutube]

He is my mentor. I wish I could tell him that in person.

[@JMAN-pg4tg]

It saddens me to look back on how George was treated for the prequels. It was all so undeserved

[@derekf9017]

Lucas worked hard early and made people excited to WORK ON NEW STUFF; very Orthodox Christian man

[@Ruleof2Review]

Having a First Order trooper in this thumb nail…next to George Lucas…is so unfathomably irritating lol. Y’all have GOT to fix that. It’s a big time fail.

[@coreydavis6427]

Yes boss.

[@schmebulockjizz]

Do one on Yorgos Lanthimos?

[@EstebanHurtado05]

You should do tips from Roman Polanski

[@user-nr5tj4iv8l]

Только ситхи все возводят в абсолют))

[@coltseavers6298]

_"05 - Leaving and selling your passion project might be hard. But once you decide to move on, you never look back and start working 100% on the new project."_ LOL

[@legotwoface]

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[@Onmysheet]

George Lucas is the last person I'd want positive advice from about writing. Maybe advice about dialogue I can throw away.

[@cryptohalloffame]

there's lucas, and then there's everyone else. that's the way it is...

[@SoCoolScience]

George Lucas how to be a great writer and director steal "The Hidden Fortress"

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

Tip #11. Do not get pretentious. Too late.

[@theexpresidents]

lol!

[@darthgoldustgamingandvlogg8674]

Really?

[@bobbyokeefe4285]

He ruined my childhood.

[@legotwoface]

Nice

[@08prema]

Oh Please ....... LOL

[@incognitoinconspicuous9272]

Forgive me for my political incorrectness but, that rude African girl is awful. No thankyou!!!❤

[@theexpresidents]

Does anyone think of him as a writer? Star Wars is pretty derivative (of multiple sources) and he never made another movie beside Star Wars. He gets a lot of story credits, but that doesn’t mean anything.

[@mty01]

This is an interesting question, but I think he considers himself, first and foremost, a writer. He studied screenwriting in film school. He is the one who invented the Indiana Jones character and those plots, and he devised the story for Star Wars over the course of six movies. He is very meticulous in his development of story, and I think it is a great feat to synthesize different story ideas, like in the case of Star Wars, into a singular film plot. I think he is a master of the screenwriting craft.

[@laneblakley6273]

Thx 1138. American Graffiti

[@jesaispasvraimentquoiecrireici]

Your second sentence is completely wrong. He directed American Grafitti which is considered by many, a masterpiece. THX 1138 is also a great sci he directed

[@mty01]

@@jesaispasvraimentquoiecrireici I don’t deny that he is a great director. However, I believe I saw an interview in which he said he considers himself a writer first and a director second.

[@maxfriese623]

Lucas wrote every sw movie, but didn't direct them all. Also he wrote indiana Jones, American graffiti. So he's even more a writer than a director

[@M00nHead]

George Lucas the thief of Dune

[@LawrenceCaldwellAuthor]

No.

[@Jogyot3260]

Explain more definitively

[@eamonnmaccionnaith5761]

Writing tips from Lucas?! That's a good joke.

[@legotwoface]

Care to elaborate?

[@eamonnmaccionnaith5761]

@@legotwoface He's an atrocious screenwriter.

[@legotwoface]

@@eamonnmaccionnaith5761 you're original comment pretty much says (or at least implies) the same thing. So it's not really elaboration

[@eamonnmaccionnaith5761]

@@legotwoface Watch the prequels. You won't need any further elaboration.

[@legotwoface]

@@eamonnmaccionnaith5761 ok? What makes the prequels so bad in your eyes? (Sorry for not replying sooner)

[@GarytongueBetz-vl1fu]

Sell the kids for food.