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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Star Wars comes up
How Obsession Built Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 12:42 David Senra Nolan remembers seeing George Lucas' Star Wars upon its release in 1977.
- ▶ 16:31 David Senra So it says, Nolan remembers lying in bed after lights out, listening to the soundtracks of Star Wars, the movie, 2001 or chariots of fire on his Walkman.
Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities
- ▶ 52:58 David Senra He invented the star Wars.
The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of the Most Powerful Man in Hollywood: Michael Ovitz
- ▶ 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.
The Simple Genius of Haruki Murakami
- ▶ 49:19 David Senra In that biography, he talked about that George Lucas wrote Star Wars the same way. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Walt Disney
- ▶ 57:59 David Senra George Lucas wanted to make sure he maintained the right to do sequels and the right to own the merchandise for Star Wars, and they just gave it up. 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. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of George Lucas
- ▶ 0:35 David Senra And the influences that he used to build Star Wars, which is obviously the cornerstone of his multi-billion dollar empire, have been well-documented.
- ▶ 7:07 David Senra It opens up right in the middle of him shooting star Wars. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:08 David Senra And in that Lucas is just talking about the fact that all this reading and studying of history that he was doing as a kid influenced the storyline for Star Wars.
- ▶ 26:34 David Senra This is like a decade before Star Wars. 3 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… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:38 David Senra This issue of leaving a safe environment and going out into the unknown would be an underlying premise of his first three films, THX, American Graffiti, and Star Wars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:58 David Senra But, what was fascinating about this is, in this meeting with David Picker, ok, is the birth of Star Wars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:50 David Senra And the title, which is scrawled in the center of the treatment's cover page, is The Star Wars. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:57 David Senra He goes, and he screens Star Wars, and his wife, who hadn't seen the film since the first cut, she was off, I think, uh, editing for Scorsese, if I remember correctly, she bursts into tears. 4 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.
- ▶ 12:08 David Senra But one man was about to change that with a movie called Star Wars.
- ▶ 16:50 David Senra As a young filmmaker in the wake of American Graffiti's success, he was advised to demand a higher salary on his next movie, which would be Star Wars. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Christopher Nolan
- ▶ 9:59 David Senra So if he happened to be living in America at the time, he would see movies like star Wars, for example. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:05 David Senra So what Nolan would do is after lights out, he would lie in bed in the dark with his eyes closed, listening to the soundtrack and the scores of like star Wars and this other movie called chariots of fire on his Walkman.
The Biography of Kobe Bryant
- ▶ 31:16 David Senra So it says, Kobe always loved Disney and Star Wars and Jedi Knights. 2 times in the scene
The Biography of Steve Jobs (The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader)
- ▶ 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…