By George Lucas, On Norman Rockwell
“When we were in film school we would say, we’re not making movies the way things are, we’re making movies about the way things should be. And that’s the power you have as an artist, to be able to put your spin on reality and make it the way you think it should be. Whether it’s darker or more optimistic, you have the choice. Rockwell created his art to relate to people, but at the same time he showed generations to come what it was like in those years. He made a very powerful statement about what our society was thinking during that period of time.”
-George Lucas