"The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie."
-George Lucas
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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.“
-George Lucas
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"The secret to film is that it's an illusion."
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"Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard."
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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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"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."
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"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 mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in."
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
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