George Lucas: The Force Will Be With You

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🗓️ 7 December 2015

⏱️ 37 minutes

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George Lucas’s only dream as a teenager was to race cars, but he went on to create the most popular films in motion picture history. Along the way, while writing and directing Star Wars, Indiana Jones and American Graffiti, he learned life-changing lessons about humility, generosity, and the inestimable value of friendship…. as well as the secret to happiness. A not-too-subtle hint here: it has nothing to do with fame and fortune. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2015

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0:00.0	Madame, this child is gifted.
0:05.0	And I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
0:08.0	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity,
0:12.0	and you don't take it, you may never have another
0:14.4	chance.
0:15.4	It all was so clear.
0:16.4	It was just like the picture started to form itself.
0:19.7	There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light, death over life.
0:27.0	Every day I wake up and decide. Today I'm going to love my life.
0:34.0	Decide.
0:39.0	My advice is if they don't break your leg once when you go in that place stay out of there. And then along come these differential experiences that you don't look for, you don't plan for,
0:46.3	but boy you better not miss them.
0:48.3	I grew up in a small town in Central California, a farming community.
0:55.6	We had a couple movie theaters. You go to the movies once in a while. I grew up
1:00.6	before television. So I didn't really discover film or even interest in film until I was like a junior in college.
1:08.2	But that, my listening friends, is the guy who created the biggest movie phenomenon of all time.
1:15.0	In this episode of what it takes from the Academy of Achievement,
1:18.0	The Force Behind the Force, George Lucas. I'm Alice Winkler. George Lucas recorded two interviews for the Academy of Achievement's Archive, one in 1995 and one in 1999.
1:49.0	I'll play you excerpts from both in this episode, but also a
1:52.6	clip from a speech he made to students at an Academy
1:55.6	Gathering in 2014, where he revealed the true meaning
2:00.6	of the dark side and the light side. It will lead you to greater
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