I didn't say he didn't beat the system, I said that after the system he became worse than what he was afraid the system would make of him.

He wanted to be a free film maker to go about and do the films he wanted, yet he got stuck doing a single franchise and not the films he himself claimed he wanted to be free to do. He said Star Wars was his means to become free to do those films, but instead he became entangled by Star Wars and grew old never having done those films he use to want so badly to do.

I still think if young George could meet old George and see what he has accomplished, he'd be more than a little disappointed. He went from being a young film maker with a vision, to an old fat man with shit loads of money.