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.
GEORGE LUCASSo this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
More George Lucas Quotes
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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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Ultimately the Force is the larger mystery of the universe. And to trust your feelings is your way into that.
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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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Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
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I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.
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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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The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.
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Don’t avoid the cliches – they are cliches because they work!
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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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Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
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Education is the single most important job of the human race.
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Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil… The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.
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Good luck has its storms.
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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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Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.
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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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Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
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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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Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.
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The one way the world hasn’t changed: teaching is still the most important job.
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We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.
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So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
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You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you’re going to go down
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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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Someday you’re going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.
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All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.
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