Star Wars

“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. That would be the expected move in Hollywood. Bump your quote. Bump your quote. Not for George, though. He sk…”

“And so Spielberg gave Lucas 2.5% of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Lucas gave Spielberg 2.5% of Star Wars. And it says this two 5.5% would earn Spielberg more than forty million dollars over the next four decades.”

“It is very hard to understand at the time you're doing something, how it's actually going to turn out and how impactful it was.”

“Lucas makes three times the amount of toys as he does on the films and the films, they make billions and billions of dollars.”

“The budget for the original Star Wars was eleven million dollars. At the box office alone, it brought in seven hundred and seventy-five million.”

“So they publish like a novelization of Lucas's script. They publish in November, 1976. The that's before there was even a trailer. By February, 1977. So you're talking was that three months, four months later, they had already sold out of its initial print run…”

“People going to see a Spielberg movie has no, like him being successful does not, it's not, it's all positive sum. It's not zero sum. They can go see Jaws and then next year they'll go see Star Wars.”

“Just in 1978 alone, George Lucas sells forty million Star Wars figures.”