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George Lucas
American
Director
About the author
I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Public
#Thought
You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Right
Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
George Lucas,
American
Director
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Film
#End
#Being
#Beginning
#Survival
Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Reality
#Innovation
#Quest
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Film
#Illusion
The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Years
#Today
#Principles
#Ideals
'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Want
#People
#Fun
#Inspirational
Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Goals
#Achievement
If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Office
#Sunset
He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Being
#Writing
#Word
Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Writer
Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Learning
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.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#People
Good luck has its storms.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Luck
#Storms
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.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Time
#People
#Past
#History
#Trying
#Present
#School
Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Talent
Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.
George Lucas,
American
Director
#Film
#Occupation
#Occupations