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"Movies have always been a huge part of my life. My dad, George Lucas, is the man behind hits like Star Wars and the Indiana Jones movies. He&amp;#039;s always been incredibly creative: As a kid he constructed fantasy worlds out of boxes from my grandfather&amp;#039;s stationery store, which he was expected to take over after high school. But instead, Dad &amp;quot;followed his bliss,&amp;quot; as he says, and pursued his passion for photography, which led him to film. When my brother and sister and I were growing up, he always encouraged us to do whatever inspired us. And so after discovering my love for photography, I began going to my dad with ideas and questions about my work. He respects my art while still giving me suggestions for improvement. The best advice he&amp;#039;s ever given me is to trust my own vision and never let anyone stunt my creativity, because it is my voice. So in honor of Father&amp;#039;s Day and all rebellious teenagers (like Anakin in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith), here&amp;#039;s some advice from a man who knows a lot about sticking to your vision-no matter what anyone says. Katie Lucas: When you were my age, what did you want to do with your life? George Lucas: I wanted to race cars. I didn&amp;#039;t like school and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college. So I took classes in anthropology, psychology, and sociology, and I got my associate&amp;#039;s degree. I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I&amp;#039;d ever have any interest in filmmaking.  KL: Were you very ambitious? GL: No, I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn&amp;#039;t care what kind of movies I made. I did commercials, educational films, documentaries... anything to make movies. KL: What advice would you give a girl who wants to do something creative? GL: Be true to yourself, which doesn&amp;#039;t mean you have to be obscure or self-indulgent. It means paying attention to your goal and not letting other people talk you out of it. Now, you have to keep your audience in mind-you can&amp;#039;t just make a movie or a painting or any other creative endeavor just to please yourself. You have to do it to please other people, because that&amp;#039;s usually where the work is. KL: How can girls tap into their creativity? GL: A lot of great thinkers- like Einstein and Newton- come up with their best ideas when they&amp;#039;re young because they don&amp;#039;t yet think in the way that the establishment teaches them. Sometimes your lack of knowledge frees your mind to be creative and think in a different way. So it&amp;#039;s a matter of balancing the practical with the &amp;quot;what if.&amp;quot; I came up with an idea for a movie [Star Wars]. The trouble was that it was way too long and I couldn&amp;#039;t afford to do it. You still have to be logical and figure out a practical way to get things done, even though you&amp;#039;re looking at things differently. So I split it into three parts. KL: What&amp;#039;s one of the firsts steps a girl should take to get into the movie business? GL: The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film-whether it&amp;#039;s history, psychology, economics, or architecture-so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn&amp;#039;t going to help you unless you have something to say. KL: And what about other creative girls? GL: Follow your bliss. Do the thing where you sit down at 8 a.m. and then you realize you&amp;#039;re hungry and you look up and it&amp;#039;s 10 p.m. If you can find something you love that much, it doesn&amp;#039;t matter what you do. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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