“Action cures anxiety”

Randal Kleiser, George Lucas’s college roommate at USC in the 1960’s (a decade before the first Star Wars came out):

“He preferred shutting himself in his top floor bedroom sitting at the drawing board, planning out his films and sketching out ideas. I would always try to get him to go out to parties and clubs and stuff…but George would usually stay upstairs in his room drawing these things he called “star troopers”.  For George, that was better than partying.”

“I'd be working all day and all night, living on chocolate bars and coffee” said Lucas.

“It was a great life. I had enthusiasm and I was too busy to get into drugs. Movies were my addiction. We were passionate about movies. We were always scrambling to get our next fix— to get a little film in the camera and shoot something.”

“Build a life you don’t need a vacation from, and then take one anyway”

“I was so tunnel visioned that I literally did nothing else. I thought about nothing else. Nobody understood it.

‘What the hell are you doing? And why are you eating like a robot every 2-3 hours? What's this all about?’

I always felt like I was different, like I didn't really fit in. Some people have got something inside them. It's like a burning. Something inside that you gotta do.

“They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest"— and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all". And with that, I’ll stop trying to convince myself that I can’t fail; how dull the whole thing would be if that were true.”

“The nights you fight best are
when all the weapons are pointed at you,
when all the voices hurl their insults
while the dream is being strangled.

The nights you fight best are
when reason gets kicked in the gut,
when the chariots of gloom encircle you.

The nights you fight best are
when the laughter of fools fills the air,
when the kiss of death is mistaken for love.

The nights you fight best are
when the game is fixed,
when the crowd screams for your blood.

The nights you fight best are
on a night like this
as you chase a thousand dark rats from your brain,
as you rise up against the impossible,
as you become a brother to the tender sister of joy

and move on

regardless.”