Originally posted by: Fang Zei
If Lucas really means what he said in that quote, I doubt he has much self respect.

I've always thought that very thing played a huge role in his ever-changing revisionist's-history BS of "what I really intended when I originally wrote the 9 - errr 6 - story double trilogy in the early 70s was...."

Having BSed and lied about statements for so long about so many of the aspects of his "original vision" and the goings on with the locations, budgets, directors, studio, etc, he has no choice but to stay the course with his lies about the past. He certainly can't come out 30 years later and say -

"There was never any grand vision, you guys have been right all along..."

"The Star Wars was just one story when I wrote it - a single 2 hour movie...."

"I know it's sounded more and more ridiculous with each new SE, but I kept digging myself in deeper with my lies..."

"I was making up stuff as I went along. The characters were never related to each other..."

"The marketing tie-ins decided major plot points..."

"I shouldn't have given all those magazine interviews back in the 70s. Too many people remember what I really said..."

"I shouldn't have tried to stretch a simple two hour film into a series of 6 films..."

He's so far down the revisionist's path, that he can't stop now.