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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where American Graffiti comes up
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 35:37 David Senra There's almost like this contrast between this, this innate fiscal conservatism, this hatred of debt, uh, this hatred of risk that George Lucas has with being full risk on, which he's forced to do on his first movie, American, his second…
- ▶ 54:38 David Senra This issue of leaving a safe environment and going out into the unknown would be an underlying premise of his first three films, THX, American Graffiti, and Star Wars.
- ▶ 59:09 David Senra And it's called American graffiti. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:15 David Senra American graffiti cost a million dollars and it earned at the box office, fifty five million, making it one of cinema's most profitable returns on investment ever.
- ▶ 1:17:23 David Senra Fox was willing to sign over the sequel merchandising rights, mainly because they'd gotten the director of American Graffiti so cheaply, and no one, not even Lucas, appreciated
Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
- ▶ 16:50 David Senra As a young filmmaker in the wake of American Graffiti's success, he was advised to demand a higher salary on his next movie, which would be Star Wars.