Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
GEORGE LUCASSound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I’ve always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.
More George Lucas Quotes
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Always remember, your focus determines your reality.
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Teachers are the most important individuals in our society – nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.
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Someday you’re going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.
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I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.
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A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
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From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.
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But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences – is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.
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Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.
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Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
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Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.
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A movie is never finished, only abandoned.
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You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you’re going to go down
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All democracies turn into dictatorships – but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it’s Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea.
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May the Force be with you.
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I’ve discovered that most critics themselves are cinematically illiterate. They don’t really know much about movies. They don’t know the history. They don’t know the technology. They don’t know anything. So for them to try to analyze it, they’re lost.
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