George Lucas Quotes

I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.

Everything's serendipitous and there's no way of knowing who's going to get sick or who's going to get hit by a bus or who's going to fall in love and who's going to get pregnant. All the things that happen, it's up for grabs so it's kind of an exercise in surrender in a way.

I think that's as far as you have to think, everything happens as a coincidence. It either happens or it doesn't. It's hard to map out a strategic plan by saying, 'If I do that, that's going to get me to the next level.' I think that's the wrong way to go into movies as an actor. It doesn't happen for me that way.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.

All heroes are shadows of Christ

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

A post-9/11, modern take being Batman training people to be the heroes they know they can be on their own.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.

Soon,” said the crackling voice of the flame, coming from behind him, “they will fall. Soon they will fall and the star people will meet the earth people. There will be heroes among them, and men who will slay monsters and bring knowledge, but none of them will be gods. This is a poor place for gods.

Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.

Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes.

I wish heroes didn't exist. Whenever we need a hero, it's because there's a problem that needs to be solved; it's because two groups of people, or two countries, are hurting one another, so a hero is needed to save us. If everyone were at peace, if everyone were happy, why would we need heroes? The world is better off without heroes.

What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.

Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!

We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

Luck, you see, brings bitter friends.

I don’t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence.