E. V. Lucas Quotes

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

I had a Southern accent but I had broken it so hard.

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

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

Governments cannot assume or expect that the ECB will always facilitate their funding independently of the achievement of their fiscal and other policy objectives.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

I've always tried to be aware of what I say in my films, because all of us who make motion pictures are teachers - teachers with very loud voices.

I need to travel - I crave the power of the ocean and the trees give me so much energy to think.

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

Most trails can be fairly simple.

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.

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

South Carolina is in the spring a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years.

No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

In my films, all the great things are put together. It's not like one kind of ice cream but rather a very big Sundae.

There are two words for everything.

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

We were always dreaming of how it was going to be.

The story being told in Star Wars is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again.

I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.

Star Wars has always struck a chord with people. There are issues of loyalty, of friendship, of good and evil... The theme came from stories and ideas that have been around for thousands of years.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

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

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense.

Life's a climb, but the view's great.

The participation of our country in the eurozone is a guarantee for the country's monetary stability. It is a driver of financial prosperity.

If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.

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

Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work!

The script is what you've dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have.

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

Money is cool, but being proud of yourself is something that's so rare.

Every saint has a bee in his halo.

Great fear is concealed under daring.