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George Lucas, born on May 14, 1944, is a renowned film director and producer from the United States. He is best known for his groundbreaking film works, particularly the 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones' franchises, which have had a profound impact on the global film industry.

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“Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to the system with is our brain. If we don't use it, and we don't adapt fast enough, we won't survive.”

Ifs Enough Use Brain Organisms

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“Any society begins by realizing that together, by helping each other, you can survive better than if you fight each other and compete with each other.”

Ifs Helping Together Fighting Realizing Helping Each Other

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“As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we don't want to help anybody else. We want to succeed, but we don't want anybody else to succeed, because we want to be the winner.”

Thinking Want Helping Individual Groups Succeed Stronger Winner

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“Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.”

Reason Helping Successful My Friends Helping Each Other

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“My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.”

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“You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from.”

People Knows Needs Helping Levels Peers Need Help

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“One of the basic motifs in fairy tales is that you find the poor and unfortunate along the side of the road, and when they beg for help, if you give it to them, you end up succeeding. If you don't give it to them, you end up being turned into a frog or something. It's something that's been around for thousands of years, a concept that's been around for thousands of years.”

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“You can be as rich, and famous, and powerful as you want to be, and it will not bring you happiness. That's said over and over and over, again. It's such a cliché that it hardly needs to be said, but people don't understand that it's actually true.”

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“You can find people who have discovered the fact that it's really helping people, it's really being compassionate toward other human beings that makes you happy, that gives you a spiritual fulfillment - a kind of fulfillment that goes way beyond anything you can buy.”

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“I have a lot of ideas and I want to be able to work. To me, it's like one of these contests where you get five minutes in a supermarket to take anything off the shelves you want and try to fill your cart up as much as you can. That's the way I look at my work.”

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“I have a supermarket full of ideas and the challenge is how many ideas can I get in my cart before I'm gone. When you're doing it, you're not focused on success. It's not a matter of modesty. You're simply trying to get all the things done that you want to get done in your life.”

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“I think as you grow up, you realize you have obligations just in your life - being a citizen, being part of humanity - to help other people, to help your country, to help the world.”

People Thinking World Country Helping Humanity Grows Realizing Growing Up Citizens Helping Others Obligation

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“After a lot of struggling and sort of reflection I realized that the time you have to give is now, regardless of how old you are.”

Giving Struggle Reflection I Realized Old You

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“I think that's an obligation you have, to give back no matter what happens. It actually ends up being easier when you're young than when you become successful. Suddenly you realize you've gone into a whole other realm of philanthropy, from just being a volunteer to being this person that dedicates buildings and saves lots of children in some faraway place.”

“In the end, the most important thing to me is that I've raised three kids. I know that'll be the most important accomplishment of my life and it is the most easily obtainable, because all you have to do is pay attention. It is hard work and most people don't realize that's the real gift they are getting in terms of goals and success and accomplishments.”

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“I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living. 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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“On the professional side, I've helped move cinema from a chemical-based medium to a digital-based medium. That'll be one of the landmarks. And I've left these stories, these little tales that have been imprinted on the media, which will or will not be of interest to people in the future. I've done the best I can.”

People Littles Has Beens I Can Done Stories Moving Left Sides Interest Media Tales Mediums Cinema Digital Chemicals Landmarks

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“You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.”

Thinking Years May Important Lasts Thousand Lifetime Thousand Years

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“I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain.”

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“Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.”

People Knows Trying Design Intelligent Intellect Intelligent Design

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“Success is when you try to achieve your inward vision externally and have it come off the way you see it. Then YOU feel successful about it; that's how success is measured.”

Way Feels Trying Vision Successful Achieve Inward Success Is Measured

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“The theme that runs through my movies is the fact that we create barriers for ourselves....because we say, Well, I can't do that. But in the end, you can't do it unless you can imagine yourself succeeding at it.”

Wells I Can Ends Facts Running Imagine Succeed Theme Barriers

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“All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea.”

People Giving Ideas Turns Democracy Population Dictatorship Dictator Julius Coups

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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.”

Persons Doe Turns Democracy Issues Empires Republic Dictatorship Exploring Good Person Vader

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“You must let go of your past and embrace your future and figure out what path you're going to go down”

Past Path Figures Letting Go Embrace Our Future Our Past Your Future Your Past

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“Everybody has talent and it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is. A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night - and also something that you have a talent, not a talent for, but skills that you have a natural ability to do very well. And usually those two things go together.”

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“I must admit I suffered a bit when I first came to England. But then I realised that there was nothing to be intimidated by, everybody had two legs.”

Firsts Two Bits England Legs Realised Intimidated

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“Young people don't have a fantasy life anymore, not the way we did. All they've got is Kojak and Dirty Harry. There's all these kids running around wanting to be killer cops.”

People Way Running Kids Young Fantasy Dirty Killers Cop Fantasy Life

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“The underlying issues, the psychological motives, in all my movies have been the same, he said. Personal responsibility and friendship, the importance of a compassionate life as opposed to a passionate life.”

Has Beens Said Responsibility Issues Importance Passionate Psychological Motive Compassionate Personal Responsibility Passionate Life

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“When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it's a source. They don't realise it is just one person typing out their opinion.”

Persons Hate Opinion Groups Fans Source Internet Picks Presses Just One Realising Small Groups Typing

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“I like racing. I love the speed and I'm a very kinetic person in terms of filmmaking. I love the movement of film more than anything else.”

Persons Film Term Movement Speed Racing Filmmaking

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“I intend more of a kinship with silent films than more modern film. I like the old cinema. My films are more of a hybrid - a different style of filmmaking to what I call talking head movies. Some people don't get it. Especially the more academic types.”

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“I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.”

Writing Firsts Persons I Can Moving Dialogue Poetic First Person Utilitarian

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“I'm aware that dialogue isn't my strength. I use it as a device. I don't particularly like dialogue which is part of the problem.”

Use Problem Dialogue Devices

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“I think that Lethal Weapon-style dialogue is overused, it's a necessary aspect of high action films where you have to have the smart retort. You have to say "I'll be back baby" and stuff. It's not my style.”

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“I like Star Wars, it's fun and I enjoy doing it. But it's definitely not my life. I'm a bigger movie fan than I am Star Wars fan. I like making movies.”

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“[Star Wars is] designed primarily to make young people think about the mystery. Not to say, 'Here's the answer.' It's to say, 'Think about this for a second. Is there a God? What does God look like? What does God sound like? What does God feel like? How do we relate to God?'”

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“You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.”

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“I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.”

Film Finished Abandoned

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“Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.”

Important Hard Motivational Work Work Harder Work Related Working Very Hard

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“The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Hard Motivational Sides Secret Giving Up Worthwhile Hopelessness Not Giving Up

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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.”

Motivational Feet Fronts Keep Going Never Quit Blinders

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“Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.”

Matter Moving Talent Self Help Skills And Talent

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“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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“Good luck has its storms.”

Luck Storm Good Luck

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“You can't do it unless you can imagine it.”

Motivational Imagine Visionaries Vision Of Life Mission And Vision Leadership Vision Leadership And Vision Visionary Leaders Visionary Leadership

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“The secret to film is that it's an illusion.”

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“'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.”

People Want War Fun Stars Exciting

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“The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.”

Actors Sound Entertainment Movie Sound And Music

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“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.”

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Born: May 14, 1944
Known for: Film director
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