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I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.
George Lucas
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George Lucas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: May 14
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Modesto
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George Walton Lucas Jr.
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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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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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You can't put a title card at the head of the movie and say, Well, we really had a bad problem. You know, the actor got sick and it rained this day and we had a hurricane.
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Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content.
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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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I made lots of movies while in school while everybody else was running around saying, Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish they'd give me some film.
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