"Good luck has its storms"
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“Good luck has its storms” reads like a filmmaker’s superstition cleaned up into a proverb: a reminder that fortune isn’t a steady tailwind, it’s weather. Coming from George Lucas, it lands less as mystical optimism than as production reality. His career is a case study in lucky breaks that arrive attached to chaos: a young director stumbling into the cultural monolith of Star Wars, then immediately having to survive the industrial pressure that success creates. Luck, for Lucas, isn’t a gift basket; it’s a new set of problems with higher stakes.
The line works because it flips the usual moral geometry. We expect storms to punish bad choices. Lucas suggests the opposite: success brings turbulence of its own. That’s not just humility; it’s preemptive framing. If you’re “lucky,” people assume ease, entitlement, even inevitability. Calling luck stormy reclaims effort and risk, and it subtly inoculates against the narrative that his achievements were effortless destiny.
There’s also an artist-versus-industry subtext. Lucas became famous for building the escape hatch: Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, Skywalker Sound. Those weren’t vanity projects; they were infrastructure designed to withstand storms created by hits - deadlines, expectations, technological limits, the suffocating demand to repeat yourself. The quote compresses a career lesson into six words: the moment you win, the weather changes.
The line works because it flips the usual moral geometry. We expect storms to punish bad choices. Lucas suggests the opposite: success brings turbulence of its own. That’s not just humility; it’s preemptive framing. If you’re “lucky,” people assume ease, entitlement, even inevitability. Calling luck stormy reclaims effort and risk, and it subtly inoculates against the narrative that his achievements were effortless destiny.
There’s also an artist-versus-industry subtext. Lucas became famous for building the escape hatch: Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic, Skywalker Sound. Those weren’t vanity projects; they were infrastructure designed to withstand storms created by hits - deadlines, expectations, technological limits, the suffocating demand to repeat yourself. The quote compresses a career lesson into six words: the moment you win, the weather changes.
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