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.
GEORGE LUCASI’m extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.
More George Lucas Quotes
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Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.
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So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
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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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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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Working hard is very important. You’re not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
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Don’t avoid the cliches – they are cliches because they work!
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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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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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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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You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
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I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life – being a citizen, being part of humanity – to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.
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It’s okay to lose; just don’t lose the lesson.
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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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I want to live where I want to live, and I will make films because I love to make films.
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Education is the single most important job of the human race.
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