35 George Lucas: A Life — transcript highlights
Founders · David Senra · 2018-08-26
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What the transcript keeps returning to
Product
“But he named one of his first production companies Nevermind I'll Do It Myself Productions.”
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Focus
“And this one decision, this decision to study cinema at USC, changes his life.”
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People
“this picture, people are responding off the wall.'" So what he's talking about is when, when they would show American Graffiti in…”
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Persistence
“He was a few years older, about five years older than Lucas and Spielberg and some of these other guys.”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: persistence.
Capital
“Those four excised minutes would spawn an empire that would answer to the one independent entrepreneur and dictator who mattered, George Lucas."…”
The useful question here is not whether this sentence is a universal rule. It is what operating choice the episode places behind it: capital.
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