Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
George LucasRead
The script is what you`ve dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.
Interpretation
This quote contrasts the idealized vision of a project with the final result, reflecting the journey from imagination to realization.
George Lucas highlights the difference between the creative vision one has for a project and the actual outcome that is achieved. It speaks to the inherent challenges of bringing dreams into reality, suggesting that while our aspirations may be grand, the execution can vary significantly due to numerous factors, including limitations of resources and unexpected circumstances.
In practice
In a film class discussing the creative process, this quote can exemplify how filmmakers navigate their visions.
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.
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey.
But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.
The sculptor represents the transition from one pose to another he indicates how insensibly the first glides into the second. In his work we still see a part of what was and we discover a part of what is to be.
For my art, there is a common theme most of the time: it is using the things we can see to search for the world we cannot see.
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