George Lucas Quotes

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• Education is the single most important job of the human race.
• We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.
• People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
• 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…
• If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.
• 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…
• It's okay to lose; just don't lose the lesson.
• I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I…
• But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.
• From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a…
• There are a few critics overseas, and occasionally a critic will write an astute analysis of the movie. There is value in reading critics that…
• I am very concerned about our national heritage, and I am very concerned that the films that I watched when I was young and the…
• Today it is an amazing, if unexpected, legacy of Star Wars that so many gifted writers are contributing new stories to the Saga.
• The script is what you`ve dreamed up-this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.
• On the Internet, all those same guys that are complaining I made a change are completely changing the movie. I’m saying: ‘Fine. But my movie,…
• In the future it will become even easier for old negatives to become lost and be ?replaced? by new altered negatives. This would be a…
• Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those…
• STAR WARS is really three trilogies, nine films. The first trilogy covers the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire, the middle…
• The first Star Wars movie was one of six original stories I had written in the form of two trilogies. After the success of Star…
• For the third trilogy, I don't know if I will still be alive when it comes the time to make them.

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