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Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think.

George Lucas

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George Lucas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 14
Actor
Art Collector
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Cinematographer
Executive Producer
Film Actor
Film Director
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Film Producer
Modesto
California
George Walton Lucas Jr.
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That had always been my purpose: to get people back in touch with what makes us so valuable as a human race.
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I am more of a visual person than a verbal person. For me, I think, the excitement is the fact that I found a way of telling the story as I want to tell it, in a medium that I could master.
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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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I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career.
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[In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler.
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No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
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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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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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