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So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

George Lucas

Someday you’re going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.
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Difference Important Learning Sight Yourself
You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you’re going to need help, and you never know who you’re going to need it from.
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Friendship Help Level Life Need People Yourself
I’ve always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers – teachers with very loud voices.
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Aware Loud Movie Myself Teacher Try Voice
A movie is never finished, only abandoned.
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Abandonment Complete Movie Perspective
It’s now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I’ve always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime.
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Believe Director Generation Life Movie Myself Time Transition
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
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Innovation Myself Reality. Journey
Storytelling is about two things; it’s about character and plot.
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Character Movie Place Story
Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil… The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.
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Evil Friendship Goodness Ideas Issues Loyalty People Story
You don’t see the struggle part of a person’s life. You only see the success they have.
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Life Person Struggle Success Yourself
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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Goodness History Literature Movie Understand
The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.
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Art Best Experience True Understand Way
It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.
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Doctor Emotional Hard Work Love Movie Time Yourself
There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.
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Life Philosophy Reason Spiritual
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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Embrace Future Journey Let Go Past Path Yourself
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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Criticism Discover History Lost Technology Try
Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
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Discover Talent Yourself

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