Can this really be the end of the Star Wars saga?

GEORGE LUCAS: Yes. The series starts with Darth Vader as a young lad and ends with him dying. So I don't know where else I can take it.

Wasn't there talk at one time of three trilogies?

LUCAS: That was created by the media, not by me.

He's just talking about the idea of him having more story to tell after ROTJ being created by the media. In other places he says it's a "media myth". Again he's talking about this in the context of explaining the story as it ended up, not as he was originally thinking about doing it.

You have to keep in mind that at the time of these interviews, there was a lot of speculation about him doing a third trilogy, one of my favorite rumors was that someone was to be carbon frozen in the prequels, to be thawed out in the sequel trilogy.

While I agree he didn't use the best choice of words, I ask you.

What motivation would he possibly have for lying about this?