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 LUCASSuccess 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.
More George Lucas Quotes
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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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Education is the single most important job of the human race.
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Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
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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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I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.
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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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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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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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A movie is never finished, only abandoned.
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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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Someday you’re going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.
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The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.
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There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.
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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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We are all living in cages with the door wide open.
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