- George Lucas talked to CBS about how criticism impacted his lack of desire to direct more Star Wars films and also shared some details on what he intended for a sequel to The Return of the Jedi
- Lucas said about the conflicting approaches to Episode 7 between him and Disney:
“The issue was ultimately that they looked at the stories and they said, ‘We want to make something for the fans,'”
“All I wanted to do was tell the story of what happened. They decided they didn’t want to use those stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing, so I decided fine."
“They weren't that keen to have me involved anyway. If I get in there I’m just going to cause trouble because they’re not going to do what I want them to do, and I don’t have the control to do that anymore. All that would do is muck everything up.”
- on what Star Wars is supposed to be about, he said:
“People don’t actually realize it’s actually a soap opera and it’s all about family problems – it’s not about spaceships. So they decided they didn’t want to use those stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing so I decided, ‘fine…. I’ll go my way and I let them go their way.'”
- he compared the exercise of letting Star Wars go to a relationship break-up. He said about separating from Star Wars:
“It all comes down to a simple rule of life. When you break up with somebody, the first rule is no phone calls."
“The second rule, you don’t go over to their house and drive by to see what they’re doing, The third one is you don’t show up at their coffee shop and say, ‘You are going to burn it…’ You just say ‘Nope, gone, history, I’m moving forward.’”
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-lucas-on-why-he-is-done-directing-star-wars/
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