George Lucas

One of the most successful filmmakers in history, Star Wars creator George Lucas revealed that he stopped making movies based on big budget as he believes that with the Internet, multichannel television and video games fragmenting the entertainment audience. George Lucas, who was also behind such hits as the Indiana Jones series, said that feature films have become too risky, spending 200 million dollars on a movie has no sense when Americans are abandoning the cinema for good.

We don’t want to make movies. We’re about to get into television. As far as Lucasfilm is concerned, we’ve moved away from the feature film thing because it’s too expensive and it’s too risky. I think the secret to the future is quantity.
- said George Lucas in an interview in Daily Variety -

In other news, the ‘Star Wars’ creator and founder of Lucas Animation, George Lucas donated $175 million to the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (the oldest film school in the U.S.) through his Lucas Foundation.