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
Topics: Goals
Do or do not; there is no try.
—George Lucas
If I’d have gone to art school, or stayed in anthropology, I probably would have ended up back in film … Mostly I just followed my inner feelings and passions … and kept going to where it got warmer and warmer, until it finally got hot … Everybody has talent. It’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.
—George Lucas
Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you imagine it.
—George Lucas
Topics: Dreams
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
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