Some more Lucas Quotes on the Force, both sides of it, and Balance.
George Lucas on the bottom line of Star Wars.
"The secret, ulitmately, which is the bottom line in Star Wars and the other movies us there are two kinds of people in the world, compassionate people and selfish people. The selfish people live on the Darkside. The compassionate people live on the Lightside.
"If you go to the side of the Light you will be happy because of compassion, helping other people, not thinking about yourself, thinking about others, that gives you a joy that you can't get any other way.
Being selfish, following your pleasures, always entertaining yourself with pleasure, and buying stuff and doing stuff, you're always going to be unhappy. You'll never get to the point. You'll get this little shot of pleasure but it goes away and than you're stuck where you were before and the more you do it, the worse it gets. You finally get everything you want and you're miserable because there's nothing at the end of that road.
Whereas if you are compassionate and you get to the end of the road you've helped so many people."
https://youtu.be/RElw0dhBsOI
"He turns into Darth Vader because he gets attached to things. He can't let go of his mother, he can't let go of his girlfriend. He can't let go of things. It makes him greedy. And when you are greedy, you are on the path to the Darkside, because you fear you're going to lose things, that you're not going to have the power you need."
~ George Lucas, Time Magazine, 2002
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"It's fear of losing somebody he loves, which is the flipside of of greed. Greed, in terms of the Emperor, it is the greed for power, absolute power,
over everything. With Anakin, really it's the power to save the one he loves, but is basically going against the Fates and what is natural."
~ George Lucas, Revenge of the Sith commentary.
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"As evil begins to take over, [darksiders are evil] it pushes the Force out of balance. It's easier to succumb to evil than it is to be a hero and try to work things through on the good side. Evil is inherently more powerful—it doesn't have the burden of worrying about other people."
~ George Lucas
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"..the Dark Side is more powerful. If you want the
ultimate power you really have to go to the stronger side which is the Dark Side, but ultimately it would be your undoing."
~ George Lucas, 2005
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"The “Phantom Menace” refers to the force of the dark side of the universe. Anakin will be taken over by dark forces which in turn destroy the balance of the Galaxy.."
~ George Lucas, Cut Magazine, 1999
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"The core of the Force....you've got the Lightside and the Darkside, one is selfless, one is selfish, and you want to keep them in balance. What happens
when you go to the Darkside, It goes out of balance."
~ George Lucas, 2010
video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiImoO5QkcA - [50 second mark]
"The Darkside is always there, it is experienced daily by people. It's like a huge cancer, alive, festering - both a reminder of the moral state and, at the
same time symptom and symbol of a very sick society"
~ George Lucas, "The Mythology of Star Wars", Joseph Campell and the Power of Myth DVD, 2001
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"The Force has two sides - [Light and Dark]. It is not an inherently malevolent or a benevolent thing. It has a bad side to it, involving hate and fear, and it has a good side, involving love, charity, fairness and hope."
~ George Lucas
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"People have a tendency to confuse it — everybody has the Force. Everybody. You have the good side and you have the bad side. And as Yoda says, if you
choose the bad side, it’s easy because you don’t have to do anything. Maybe kill a few people, cheat, lie, steal. Lord it over everybody. But the good
side is hard because you have to be compassionate. You have to give of yourself. Whereas the dark side is selfish."
~ George Lucas, 2019
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The thing that she says at the very end [Padme] that 'there's still good in him',as Luke says later on in Return of the Jedi, that 'there's still good in you', that's recurring, because there is and that's the one thing that will bring balance back to the Force, that little ounce of good in him, and it's his son that makes him realize that he made the wrong decision [ROTS], that
the time for rationalization is over, and he needs to do the right thing which is to get rid of the Sith and bring Balance back to the Force."
~ George Lucas
Balance: Episode III - Philosophy Of George Lucas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EFzrsf_Xnw
What happens when you go to the dark side is it [The Force] goes out of balance and you get really selfish and you forget about everybody ... because when you get selfish you get stuff, or you want stuff, and when you want stuff and you get stuff then you are afraid somebody is going to take it away from you ... once you become afraid that somebody's going to take it away from you or you're gonna lose it, then you start to become angry, especially if you're losing it, and that anger leads to hate, and hate leads to suffering."
~ George Lucas, 2010
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"The film is ultimately about the dark side and the light side, and those sides are designed around compassion and greed. The issue of greed, of getting
things and owning things and having things and not being able to let go of things, is the opposite of compassion - of not thinking of yourself all the time. These are the two sides - the good force and the bad force. They're the simplest parts of a complex cosmic construction."
~ George Lucas, Time interview (Bill Moyers) 03/05/99
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“Friendships, honestly, trust, doing the right thing, living on the right side and avoiding the dark side,” Lucas said. “Those are the things it was meant to
do.”
~ Lucas on Star Wars and what its about, 2017
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"The message of the Star Wars films is pretty classic. There’s good and evil and the hero’s journey, his quest."
~ George Lucas, May 2020
[To a hero, there is no acceptable amount of evil.]
