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The one way the world hasn’t changed: teaching is still the most important job.

George Lucas

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
It’s okay to lose; just don’t lose the lesson.
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Education Experience Learning Lesson Lose
You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.
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Imagination Inspirational Motivational Vision Yourself
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
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
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
They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes.
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Hero Natural Place Time Wrong
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
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Death Freedom Liberty Thunder
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
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
Storytelling is about two things; it’s about character and plot.
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Character Movie Place Story
There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.
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Life Philosophy Reason Spiritual
I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.
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Adventure Inspirational Myself Regret
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
We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.
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Dreams Love Relationship View

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