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You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

George Lucas

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.
GEORGE LUCAS

Criticism Discover History Lost Technology Try
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
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Death Freedom Liberty Thunder
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
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
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
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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Evil Friendship Goodness Ideas Issues Loyalty People Story
Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.
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Fear Let Go Lose Training Yourself
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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Give Up Hard Hope Myself Secret Worth
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.
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Doctor Emotional Hard Work Love Movie Time Yourself
Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.
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Fantasy Fiction Funny Place
The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.
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Art Best Experience True Understand Way
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
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Boredom Effect Story Tools
They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes.
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Hero Natural Place Time Wrong
Good luck has its storms.
GEORGE LUCAS

Goodness Inspirational Luck One Liner Perspective Storm
Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
GEORGE LUCAS

Discover Talent Yourself
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.
GEORGE LUCAS

Myself Success Uplift

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

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