Culture | Film George Lucas has reflected on his decades-long career at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, ahead of receiving the honorary Palme d’or award during the closing ceremony on Saturday. The US writer, director and producer created the Star Wars franchise, beginning with the first film in 1977, as well as creating the Indiana Jones series. Lucas, who turned 80 earlier this month, was welcomed with a standing ovation which lasted several minutes as he reflected on his career at the French festival – a day before receiving the honour at the Grand Theatre Lumiere.
“I’m a perfectionist,” he told the crowd, according to the Cannes Film Festival. “After the first three Star Wars movies, I returned to my films with digital technology to arrange or finish what hadn’t been finished. “A filmmaker should always have the right to do what he has imagined.
It’s a concept that comes to us from Michelangelo. “He wanted everything to be perfect. “The big secret is that you have to persevere.
I fought for each of my films. I was even ready to finance them myself, because making movies is my passion.” Lucas said he was “struck by a feeling of nostalgia” in Cannes this year, as he had often attended the festival for the Indiana Jones and Star Wars films.
“I obviously have a lot of fans, but I’ve never made award-winning films. That’s why receiving this Palme d’or is a great honour,” he told the crowd. Last year, Indiana Jones and Star Wars actor Harris.
