black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

George Lucas

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.
GEORGE LUCAS

Achievement Feeling Measurement Success Vision
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.
GEORGE LUCAS

Head Hope Life Movie Myself Story Time
The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a compassionate life as opposed to a passionate life.
GEORGE LUCAS

Compassion Issues Life Lying Objective Passionate Psychology Responsibility
Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.
GEORGE LUCAS

Fantasy Fiction Funny Place
That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.
GEORGE LUCAS

Human People Purpose Race Touch Value
The one way the world hasn’t changed: teaching is still the most important job.
GEORGE LUCAS

Change Important Job Teaching Way World
Good luck has its storms.
GEORGE LUCAS

Goodness Inspirational Luck One Liner Perspective Storm
It’s okay to lose; just don’t lose the lesson.
GEORGE LUCAS

Education Experience Learning Lesson Lose
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 LUCAS

Doctor Emotional Hard Work Love Movie Time Yourself
There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.
GEORGE LUCAS

Life Philosophy Reason Spiritual
You don’t see the struggle part of a person’s life. You only see the success they have.
GEORGE LUCAS

Life Person Struggle Success Yourself
Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
GEORGE LUCAS

Discover Talent Yourself
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
GEORGE LUCAS

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
Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.
GEORGE LUCAS

Each Other Friendship Help Myself Reason Success
May the Force be with you.
GEORGE LUCAS

Force Prayer Yourself
If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.
GEORGE LUCAS

Best Country Happiness Help Patriot People
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.
GEORGE LUCAS

Country Growth Help Humanity Life Obligation People Thinking World Yourself
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
GEORGE LUCAS

Art Culture Destroy People Power Profit Work
Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.
GEORGE LUCAS

Art Light Moments Public
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
GEORGE LUCAS

Anger Darkness Fear Hate Leadership Path Side Suffering
Always remember, your focus determines your reality.
GEORGE LUCAS

Determination Focus Reality Remember Yourself
Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.
GEORGE LUCAS

Complication Element Fire Movie
They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes.
GEORGE LUCAS

Hero Natural Place Time Wrong
The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.
GEORGE LUCAS

Art Best Experience True Understand Way
I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.
GEORGE LUCAS

Adventure Inspirational Myself Regret
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.
GEORGE LUCAS

Democracy Government Ideas Politics Population

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More George Lucas Quotes