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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.

George Lucas

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.
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Abandonment Complete Movie Perspective
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
Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
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Effort Hard Work Important Inspirational Yourself
Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.
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Each Other Friendship Help Myself Reason Success
It’s okay to lose; just don’t lose the lesson.
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Education Experience Learning Lesson Lose
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
Don’t avoid the cliches – they are cliches because they work!
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Avoid Hard Time Inspirational Struggle Work
I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.
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Adventure Inspirational Myself Regret
It’s not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It’s how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there’s always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.
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Circumstance Movie Pressure Struggle Yourself
That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.
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Human People Purpose Race Touch Value
We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.
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Dreams Love Relationship View
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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Democracy Government Ideas Politics Population
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
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Easy Hard Learning Movie
The older you get, the less seriously you take criticism. I’ve gotten to a point now where I ignore it completely. It’s just not relevant to me anymore.
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Complete Criticism Ignorance Old Serious Yourself
Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
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Complication Element Fire Movie
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

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