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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.

George Lucas

Don’t avoid the cliches – they are cliches because they work!
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Avoid Hard Time Inspirational Struggle Work
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
Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.
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Beginning Each Other Fight Help Society Survive Togetherness Yourself
Storytelling is about two things; it’s about character and plot.
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Character Movie Place Story
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
It’s okay to lose; just don’t lose the lesson.
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Education Experience Learning Lesson Lose
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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Boredom Effect Story Tools
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
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
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
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Artist Easy Photograph Technology View
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
We are all living in cages with the door wide open.
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Live Philosophy Prison Reality
Always remember, your focus determines your reality.
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Determination Focus Reality Remember Yourself
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
Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.
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Fear Let Go Lose Training Yourself
The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a compassionate life as opposed to a passionate life.
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Compassion Issues Life Lying Objective Passionate Psychology Responsibility

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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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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