#luc

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#hallucination #honesty #world #forgiveness

It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#break #cable #difficult #directors #easier

George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that. ↗

— John Dykstra

#camera #concepts #doing #george #george lucas

Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh. ↗

— Thomas J. Sargent

#attended #call #conference #day #expectations

My life has been wonderful. Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#everybody #i #i think #life #little

I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes. ↗

— Kate Walsh

#good #got #i #lucky #pretty

Exactly. These guys just want me to play Snow White singing in her little cottage while they do all the work." Lucy snorted. "Snow White and the Seven Buttheads. You could give Disney a run for their money." Nicholas poked her in the ribs. "I am not a singing dwarf!" "No, you're a butthead. Weren't you paying attention? ↗

— Alyxandra Harvey

#drakes #lucy #solange #money

I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#been #classic #country #enduring #enough

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#geniuses #luckiest #mortals #most #must

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity. ↗

— Emanuel Ax

#lot #luck #serendipity