I think it was in 1971 or 1972. Yeah, it’s pretty cool to see the young, poor and idealistic Lucas rail against the corporate movie makers and their big budget blockbuster films… obviously long before he was consumed by the Dark Side he created. In fairness, I think Lucas redeemed himself to some extent when he became more accepting of the fans, their films, web sites, etc. While Celebration events are mostly PR and marketing, they are what many fans crave, so I can’t fault him for that.
I never cared for 80s & 90s Lucas… 70s and 21st century Lucas is a bit more appealing.
Gene Youngblood does a lot of pontificating in this interview, but most of his points are valid.
As far as Jar Jar goes, that’s just poor decision making… a weakness which unfortunately transcends this universe as well as that of Star Wars.
Another niceties in this interview… They shows clips from his student film “6-18-67” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-18-67), which was filmed on location of “MacKenna’s Gold”.