George Lucas: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)

This book was published before The Phantom Menace, and collects interviews with Lucas from the start of his career through the 1997 re-release.It is an interesting read, especially if you want to go back in time and hear what Lucas had to say before he ruined Star Wars with the prequels.

Well, this is a great book that helps you know more about the 20th century greatest myth maker: Mr. Lucas. Although the book is a little repetitive (You just can read so many times the story behind Thx or how he became a film maker) it lets you inside the professional life of a man known for not giving many interviews in a year. The best article is by far the 1997 interview-story that John Seabrook wrote. And here's a little note for the editors, in page 186, the writer mentions that Lucas adopted 3 daughters, so next print you may want to correct that one. Enjoyable book, but get the cheap edition :-)

Content Summary and Review: The book is valuable for collecting a variety of different interviews with George Lucas under one cover. There are many interesting perspectives to be found here, however, there is also a great deal of redundant material. One interview in several instances covers much the same material as another, and the repetition can be boring, obviously. If you are interested in finding out about Lucas' Life, the Pollock biography should suffice. Most of the material in this book is also in that one. A few quotes, ideas, perspectives are new here, and of course the major disadvantage is that the book covers only interviews regarding the 1st three movies; no updates for later interviews or articles. So - not bad, informative - but a better, more complete, and less repetitive source of information on Lucas could be produced.

George Lucas was involved in most of the movies I grew up with as a kid. So I don't care if some of his movies bombed, or if the prequels didn't turn out to be what we expected. I still consider him a great storyteller and a pioneer. This book is about his love for film-making, about his determination and his vision. The interviews get a little repetitive after a while, but they're interesting nonetheless.

OK

Ancienne édition mais très intéressant

Great seller, recommended

Per appassionati di curiosità del creatore di Guerre Stellari. Libro per conoscerne il pensiero e la visione della vita e del cinema. Ormai è un po' datato e va interpretato giudicando l'intervista nel contesto. Uno dei tanti libri su Lucas mai tradotti in italiano.