George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan and Steven Spielberg, Raiders of the Lost Ark Brainstorming Session as quoted in "Spitballing Indy", Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, (March 25, 2013).

Lucas: A bounty hunter of antiquities. Spielberg: I like that. The doctor with the bullwhip. Lucas: It has to be unique. It’s a character. Very Americana. Square. He was born in Indiana. Kasdan: What does she call him, Indy? Lucas: That’s what I was thinking. Or Jones.

— George Lucas on Indiana Jones

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George Lucas

About George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born 14 May 1944) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and entrepreneur, most famous for the Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies.