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If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

George Lucas

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.
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Give Up Hard Hope Myself Secret Worth
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
Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.
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Achievement Destination Goal Issues Journey Reality Yourself
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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Doctor Emotional Hard Work Love Movie Time Yourself
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
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Anger Darkness Fear Hate Leadership Path Side Suffering
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
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
A movie is never finished, only abandoned.
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Abandonment Complete Movie Perspective
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
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Innovation Myself Reality. Journey
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.
GEORGE LUCAS

Believe Experience Movie Myself See Sound
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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Boredom Effect Story Tools
Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.
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Fear Let Go Lose Training Yourself
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
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
GEORGE LUCAS

Right Simplicity Yourself
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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Believe Director Generation Life Movie Myself Time Transition
The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.
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Art Best Experience True Understand Way

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