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 LUCASMy 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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Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.
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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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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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A movie is never finished, only abandoned.
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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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Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.
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I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.
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From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact.
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I’ve always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers – teachers with very loud voices.
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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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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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I am simply trying to struggle through life trying to do God’s bidding.
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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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The secret to film is that it’s an illusion.
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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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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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Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
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You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.
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Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.
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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.
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All the religions are true, they just see a different part of the elephant.
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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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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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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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It’s very important not to do what your peers think you should do, not do what your parents think,your teachers or even your culture. Do what’s inside of you.
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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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