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How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 1:21 David Senra Like Spielberg and George Lucas before him, he has become a franchise unto himself.
- ▶ 8:16 David Senra George Lucas has that almost exact same line in his biography that's written by Brian Jane Jones, which I think the book is called George Lucas Life. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:39 David Senra And the first thing I want to tell you is the fact that when he was seven years old, he's inspired by the work of George Lucas. 2 times in the scene
Steve Jobs in Exile
- ▶ 5:32 David Senra So he's watching George Lucas because he's going to buy Pixar from George Lucas because George Lucas is going through this divorce. 4 times in the scene
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder
- ▶ 56:58 David Senra I guess George Lucas did the same thing with Skywalker Ranch, but we see this idea again with Matteshitz.
Steve Jobs In His Own Words (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 43:03 David Senra Same time, he bought Pixar, which was spun off from filmmaker George Lucas's Empire. 3 times in the scene
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
- ▶ 52:46 David Senra I read the biography of George Lucas, which is remarkable. 4 times in the scene
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 45:01 David Senra Tarantino, Spielberg, George Lucas.
- ▶ 1:17:25 David Senra Despite the runaway success of George Lucas' Star Wars, the studio passed on Raiders of the Lost Ark when Lucas' lawyer demanded a fifty-fifty split. 2 times in the scene
The Simple Genius of Haruki Murakami
- ▶ 49:12 David Senra This sort of daily training was indispensable to him a few weeks ago when I did George Lucas's biography. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 1:53 David Senra What I get out of the book, the context, the additional meaning, and I think particularly doing it right now after doing Quentin Tarantino, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:47 David Senra And just like George Lucas, he's going to fight against what his father wants to do for George Lucas's dad wanted him to work at the stationery store. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:10 David Senra This is just like George Lucas, what I just said.
- ▶ 17:05 David Senra So this is where I, I mentioned, this is line in the George Lucas, uh, biography that I thought was interesting, where he would, like, shoot so much footage, as many, as much as he can in, like, you know, a handful of days, and then you…
- ▶ 21:38 David Senra Think about the description of George Lucas in that biography. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:50 David Senra For the life of me, this is happening decades before George Lucas is negotiating with 20th Century Fox about maintaining the merchandise. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:08:20 David Senra And so just like George Lucas went all in, he bet every single thing he had on the sequel to Star Wars. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:36 David Senra Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Edwin Land, Steve Jobs, James Dyson, the founder of Red Bull, Red Bull, uh, Dietrich Massachusetts, uh, Charlie Munger. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra I don't think you have to listen to the Quentin Tarantino episode or the Steven Spielberg episode before you listen to this episode on George Lucas. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:52 David Senra George Lucas unapologetically invested in what he believed in the most, himself. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:00 David Senra He was the sole shareholder. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:33 David Senra Why am I doing, like, Lucas right now? 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:11 David Senra So let's go back to this idea where Lucas is just, he's unmanageable. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:37 David Senra There's almost like this contrast between this, this innate fiscal conservatism, this hatred of debt, uh, this hatred of risk that George Lucas has with being full risk on, which he's forced to do on his first movie, American, his second… 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:13 David Senra And so he tells Lucas like, this is exactly what we need to do. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:01 David Senra Lucas is always tight with a dollar and Coppola would continue to spend money recklessly. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:38 David Senra They called, uh, Lucas at the time, a cold, weird director. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:26 David Senra Lucas earned nearly four million dollars after taxes. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:56 David Senra Now, one of the smartest things that George Lucas does is learns from his own mistakes. 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:37 David Senra So he's like, okay, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27:12 David Senra So they publish like a novelization of Lucas's script. 22 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Quentin Tarantino
- ▶ 38:33 David Senra So you're thinking Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg.
Red Bull's Billionaire Maniac Founder: Dietrich Mateschitz
- ▶ 53:09 David Senra I guess George Lucas did the same thing with Skywalker ranch, but we see this idea again with matches.
The Autobiography of Christian Dior
- ▶ 21:02 David Senra My, my favorite description of this actually came from this biography of George Lucas. 3 times in the scene
Ed Catmull (Founder of Pixar)
- ▶ 0:05 David Senra I first got into the film business in 1979, when flushed from the success of Star Wars, George Lucas hired me to help him bring high technology into the film industry.
- ▶ 11:16 David Senra Jones has written a bunch of biographies I love, but probably my favorite biography that he wrote that I love the most is a biography of George Lucas. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:32 David Senra And so he, he has an entire part, which is fantastic, talking about what he's learning from, uh, working directly under George Lucas. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:54 David Senra So George, this is in 19 eighty-eight-three, George and his wife, uh, are splitting up, and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:19 David Senra And so this entire time, Ed is telling the story of, like, just having to learn on the fly, and he's observing how all these other leaders, leaders, bosses he's had in the past, from, like, George Lucas, realizing, hey, I can't really…
- ▶ 38:21 David Senra George Lucas had this insane long view of everything. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 1:23 David Senra Like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas before him, he has become a franchise unto himself.
- ▶ 7:52 David Senra Like five years ago, I read this incredible biography of George Lucas. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:45 David Senra So he winds up finding like trade magazines that go into detail about how Lucas's company, Industrial Light Magic, were able to make like the special effects and how the shots and everything else.
- ▶ 20:48 David Senra I've, uh, I've read Steven Spielberg, uh, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, James Cameron.
The Biography of James Cameron
- ▶ 37:22 David Senra If you studied the career of George Lucas, I covered him all the way back on episode 35. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:51 David Senra The reason I'm bringing this up is because this is when he starts working with George Lucas's company, Industrial Light Magic, and it said Industrial Light Magic assured Cameron that they could do it.
- ▶ 52:07 David Senra I could easily be reading about James Dyson or George Lucas.
Walt Disney and Picasso
- ▶ 28:04 David Senra George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Before He Was Successful)
- ▶ 23:34 David Senra There's a line in George Lucas's biography where he meets his lifelong friend, but also at this point was like this kind of older mentor to him, uh, Francis Ford Coppola. 3 times in the scene
Steve Jobs (Make Something Wonderful)
- ▶ 41:01 David Senra Same time, uh, he bought Pixar, which was spun off from filmmaker George Lucas's Empire. 2 times in the scene
I had dinner with Charlie Munger
- ▶ 37:56 David Senra Sam Walton, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Rockefeller, Edwin Land, Coco Chanel, Andrew Carnegie, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Larry Ellison, Ray Kroc, John Malone, Henry Ford, George Lucas, the Wright brothers.
The Biography of Jimi Hendrix
- ▶ 42:12 David Senra And then the second was a quote from George Lucas's biography, which I covered all the way back on founders. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of Jim Clark (Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
- ▶ 23:13 David Senra George Lucas founders number 35 and Steven Spielberg founders number two oh nine. 2 times in the scene
Henry Ford's Autobiography
- ▶ 1:02:29 David Senra Read George Lucas's fantastic biography. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 36:03 David Senra This is where he discovers hidden in George Lucas's Lucasfilm division is what's going to eventually become Pixar. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:21 David Senra But, uh, it says, uh, in 1986, Steve Jobs was in exile from Apple, the company that would one day become Pixar, I'm reading my own notes to you, and this is not in the book, obviously, uh, was called Graphics Group and was owned by Star… 3 times in the scene