By George Lucas, On Norman Rockwell

“The key to Rockwell is that he’s a great storyteller who used cinematic devices to tell a story. He essentially cast his paintings. The subjects in there are actually characters who are designed, written, and put in there very specifically. Their face, their expression, their thinking, and everything about them has been cast. He didn’t just say, ‘Oh, there’s a group of people.’ He said, ‘I want this person to look like this, that person to look like that.’ That’s what we do in the movies. He is fabricating a story, which is what movie directors do. So he’s a movie director who just worked in stills instead of in moving pictures.”
-George Lucas