I think GL hasn't aged beyond the 18 year-old loner who wanted to drive cars real fast. But his near-death accident put a hold on his real dreams forever. Since fate could not allow him to be a racer his whole life, I feel he wanted to create a film that millions would love, then gradually destroy it as an act of revenge. He was never a filmmaker in my eyes, just a bitter man who wanted others to feel as bitter and angry at life as he was. It explains Anakin in the PT a lot: the whiny, detached human being who considers himself more important than he really is. And now he has deliberately destroyed three films, something one would have expected in the 1920s-1930s, but not in recent times.