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Being in Washington is more fictional than being in Hollywood.

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George Lucas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 14
Actor
Art Collector
Businessperson
Cinematographer
Executive Producer
Film Actor
Film Director
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Film Producer
Modesto
California
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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That's the issue that I've been exploring: How did the Republic turn into the Empire? That's paralleled with: How did Anakin turn into Darth Vader? How does a good person go bad, and how does a democracy become a dictatorship? It isn't that the Empire conquered the Republic, it's that the Empire is the Republic.
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Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
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'American Graffiti' was unpleasant because of the fact that there was no money, no time, and I was compromising myself to death.
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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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After you've done the first feature, then you have heck of a difficult time getting your second film off the ground. They look at your first film and they say, Oh well, we don't want you anymore.
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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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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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You try to get yourself into a situation where you only have to answer to yourself, where you can ask advice of people and work with your peers and mentors and things to try to do the best job that you can possibly do.
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Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'
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A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.
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I like Star Wars, it's fun and I enjoy doing it. But it's definitely not my life. I'm a bigger movie fan than I am Star Wars fan. I like making movies.
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Star Wars is a saga of Good vs. Evil, divided into nine parts.
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I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished.
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When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.
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Oh, my. I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel.
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