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Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

George Lucas

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George Lucas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 14
Actor
Art Collector
Businessperson
Cinematographer
Executive Producer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Editor
Film Producer
Modesto
California
George Walton Lucas Jr.
Films
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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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I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a hybrid - a different style of filmmaking to what I call talking head movies. Some people don't get it. Especially the more academic types.
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I have a strong feeling about interesting people in space exploration. . . . And the only way it's going to happen is to have some kid fantasize about getting his ray gun, jumping into his spaceship, and flying into outer space.
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Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work!
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If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.
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