That is actually from the documentary from star wars to jedi.

My favorite quote is my sig

If you count the Ebert interview, the making of rotj book and from star wars to jedi.

You have 3 different sources where he basically says the stories and characters are more important than the special effects.

The worse case scenario happened Lucas went against his own advice, he focused too much on the cgi effects and not enough on the human element of the stories.

I can remember reading once upon a galaxy the making of empire strikes back and lucas yells at kersh and says "your ruining my movie!". He takes the film completely goes nuts and recuts it and it is shit.

You think things are really bad.

Can you imagine a lucas directed empire strikes back or return of the jedi?

I am glad the did not direct them or the oot would be as bad as the prequels.