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.
GEORGE LUCASThe 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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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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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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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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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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Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
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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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Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.
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Good luck has its storms.
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Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
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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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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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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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Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
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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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The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.
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