The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.
GEORGE LUCASI’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.
More George Lucas Quotes
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Someday you’re going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.
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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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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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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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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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Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.
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I am simply trying to struggle through life trying to do God’s bidding.
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Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
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The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.
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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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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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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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I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.
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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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Good luck has its storms.
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