Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
George LucasRead
I'm one of those people who says, 'yes, cinema died when they invented sound.'
Interpretation
George Lucas expresses a sentiment that the introduction of sound changed the essence of cinema in a negative way.
In this quote, George Lucas reflects on the transformation of cinema with the advent of sound technology, suggesting that it marked the end of an era that relied on visual storytelling. He implies that the purity and imaginative potential of silent films have been lost, and he longs for a time when cinema was defined solely by its visual artistry.
In practice
In a film studies class discussing the evolution of cinema.
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.
I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
I make clothes, women make fashion.
The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to entertain, to make things up. The art of what I do lies not in research or even recollection but primarily in invention.
Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed, and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them.
It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.
Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.
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