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I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.

George Lucas

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George Lucas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 14
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George Walton Lucas Jr.
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A film is sort of binary - it either works or it doesn't work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.
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No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
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If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.
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I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.
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'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.
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Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga.
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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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Storytelling is about two things it's about character and plot.
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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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If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.
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Whenever you're making a movie, especially when you're writing, you always have self-doubts.
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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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A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.
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I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.
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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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There wasn't much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.
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We are all living in cages with the door wide open.
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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 have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.
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Always remember, your focus determines your reality.
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