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A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

George Lucas

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
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
Good luck has its storms.
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Goodness Inspirational Luck One Liner Perspective Storm
It’s okay to lose; just don’t lose the lesson.
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Education Experience Learning Lesson Lose
We are all living in cages with the door wide open.
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Live Philosophy Prison Reality
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
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
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
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
Ultimately the Force is the larger mystery of the universe. And to trust your feelings is your way into that.
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Feeling Force Mystery Trust Universe Way Yourself
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
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Art Culture Destroy People Power Profit Work
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
You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.
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Imagination Inspirational Motivational Vision Yourself
Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.
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Fantasy Fiction Funny Place
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
You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.
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Enough Inspirational Love Passion Risk Yourself
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
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Death Freedom Liberty Thunder
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
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
If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.
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Best Country Happiness Help Patriot People
Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.
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Art Light Moments Public
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
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
I am simply trying to struggle through life trying to do God’s bidding.
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God Life Myself Simplicity Struggle Try
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
Storytelling is about two things; it’s about character and plot.
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Character Movie Place Story
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
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Right Simplicity Yourself

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

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