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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

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I’ve got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.
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Head Hope Life Movie Myself Story Time
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
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Death Freedom Liberty Thunder
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
Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that’s how success is measured.
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Achievement Feeling Measurement Success Vision
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
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
The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.
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Give Up Hard Hope Myself Secret Worth
My success wasn’t based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.
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Myself Success Uplift
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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Best College Effort Engagement Myself Student Teacher
The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.
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Illusion Movie Secret
They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes.
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Hero Natural Place Time Wrong
The one way the world hasn’t changed: teaching is still the most important job.
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Change Important Job Teaching Way World
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
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
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
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Easy Hard Learning Movie
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
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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Achievement Destination Goal Issues Journey Reality Yourself
I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life – being a citizen, being part of humanity – to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.
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Country Growth Help Humanity Life Obligation People Thinking World Yourself
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
If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.
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Key Perseverance Quality Success Thinking
We are all living in cages with the door wide open.
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Live Philosophy Prison Reality
Teachers are the most important individuals in our society – nothing is as powerful as the human touch in education.
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Education Human Important Ourselves Powerful Society Teacher Touch
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
I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.
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Creation Live Movie Myself
Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.
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Fantasy Fiction Funny Place
Good luck has its storms.
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Goodness Inspirational Luck One Liner Perspective Storm
Sound 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.
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Believe Experience Movie Myself See Sound

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