Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.
GEORGE LUCASIf America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.
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Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
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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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If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.
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The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
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From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.
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Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
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You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.
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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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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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Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
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So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
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Storytelling is about two things; it’s about character and plot.
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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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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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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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Education is the single most important job of the human race.
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May the Force be with you.
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I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.
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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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I’m extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.
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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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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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Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
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All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.
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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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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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