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" It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it. "
George Lucas
Work
Long
Love
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" Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they're in another country. "
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" I've never been that much of a money guy. I'm more of a film guy, and most of the money I've made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies. "
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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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" When I was making 'Star Wars,' I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, 'I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.' "
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" You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead. "
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" As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.' "
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" None of the films I've done was designed for a mass audience, except for 'Indiana Jones.' Nobody in their right mind thought 'American Graffiti' or 'Star Wars' would work. "
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" In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience. "
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" Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot. "
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" The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked. "
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World
Intelligent
People
" Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater. "
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Night
People
Football
" I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accompaniment, and dialogue is a raft that goes on with it. "
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I See
Silent
Always
" I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made. "
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Care
Powerful
Famous
" The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not. "
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Start
You
Think
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Build
Which
Up
" There's no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television's much better than movies. "
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Difference
Television
Better
" I realized why directors are such horrible people - in a way - because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate. "
George Lucas
Nice
Listen
Be Nice
" I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college. "
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Community
Car
Education
" To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again? "
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Youth
Back
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You
Imagination
Imagine
" 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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You
" One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said. "
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Said
Good
" 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. "
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Sunset
Walk
Office
" Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. "
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Moving
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Illusion
Secret
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Pretty
" I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking. "
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" I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot. "
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