Originally posted by: ADigitalMan

Originally posted by: lord3vil
make good movies—or at least the kind of movies they like.

At least.

I don't know... The rate at which Jar Jar almost disappeared from the prequels after TPM makes it easy to question even this. Lucas was very fond of Jar Jar as a technical achievement and conceptual character. I think that, for all practical purposes, it's only about the money for him nowdays. While you will probably be right in saying that Lucas simply likes to make the kind of movies which appeal the most to the market, regardless of his own tastes and opinions, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that this isn't what he meant when he said this back in 1978.