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George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and entrepreneur. Lucas is best known for creating the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and founding Lucasfilm, LucasArts, and Industrial Light & Magic. He served as chairman of Lucasfilm before selling it to The Walt Disney Company in 2012.

Why He Rocks

 * 1) He is well-known for having created the epic sci-fi media Star Wars, in other words, he is amazing job directing A New Hope.
 * 2) He is also well-known, along with Steven Spielberg, for resurrecting the adventure genre by creating Indiana Jones by coming up with Raiders of the Lost Ark.
 * 3) He isn't as strict and impatient like other filmmakers. While filming Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, actor Rohan Nichol had a shaving accident just before he had to play the part of Captain Antilles, so he went to Lucas and apologized to him, as the cut on his chin would not stop bleeding before the shooting. Instead of getting angry, Lucas jokingly said that the character "maybe got it during the Clone Wars".
 * 4) He supplied to Pixar the necessary technology to begin their domination of the CGI animation industry, by selling the Computer Division of Lucasfilm in 1983, which became Pixar Image Computer. In this way, this means that many of Pixar's classics like Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., etc. were made possible thanks to him.
 * 5) He is a philantropist and absolutely generous despite that some quacks say that he is an egomaniacal control freak. After selling Lucasfilm to Disney, he could have spent the $4,000,000,000 Disney gave to him on anything, but instead chose to donate it to public education facilities.
 * 6) He is in favor for droids to have rights just like humans in the future, which proves he is a good-hearted activist.
 * 7) Many lines of his Star Wars films like "I find your lack of faith disturbing", "I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further", "It's a trap!", "I don't like sand", "Do it", "It's over, Anakin! I have the high ground" have spawned many Internet memes.
 * 8) He has written and conceived the stories of many good movies, like THX-1138, American Graffiti and Willow.
 * 9) He once lectured a group of autograph hounds who stalked him for autographs to sell later by calling them out for doing that.
 * 10) Without him, the sci-fi film world wouldn't be the same thing.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) His Special Editions of the original Star Wars trilogy had many changes which weren't well-received by most fans, who got mad by saying that the movies were ruined and wanted to see them restored back to how they were, despite that Lucas is totally right with modifying his own creation if he thinks so and that some of the changes helped to connect the original trilogy with the prequel trilogy.
 * 2) His Star Wars prequel trilogy wasn't his best, though the prequel trilogy is definitely way better than Kathleen Kennedy's sequel trilogy and his prequel trilogy gained the biggest cult status from the fans.
 * 3) He has now a negative self esteem thanks to the Star Wars haters in regard to his creative decisions, as shown when he talked about his plans for the Star Wars sequel trilogy, commenting that had he done it, everyone would have hated it like Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.