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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.

George Lucas

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
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
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Easy Hard Learning Movie
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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Circumstance Movie Pressure Struggle Yourself
It’s okay to lose; just don’t lose the lesson.
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Education Experience Learning Lesson Lose
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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Democracy Government Ideas Politics Population
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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Believe Experience Movie Myself See Sound
My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I’ve got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.
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Head Hope Life Movie Myself Story Time
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
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Consumption Darkness Destiny Forever Path Start Willing
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 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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Artist Easy Photograph Technology View
You don’t see the struggle part of a person’s life. You only see the success they have.
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Life Person Struggle Success Yourself
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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Achievement Feeling Measurement Success Vision
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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Myself Success Uplift
The one way the world hasn’t changed: teaching is still the most important job.
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Change Important Job Teaching Way World
The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.
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Illusion Movie Secret
Education is the single most important job of the human race.
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Education Human Important Race

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