TheBoost said:

He probably doesn't rationally know why his films were genius anymore than he knows why his other films are so dissapointing.

i think he knows. he ended the Making of TPM book by saying "for every perosn that likes star wars, 3 people will hate it". WTF!? then he did all those 'interviews' preceding the premiere saying how everyone hates him, etc. it was all cover because he knew the movie was bad.

the problem is - for a great deal of classic moments, characters, designs etc - he wasn't actively and as intimately involved in the creations, so he cannot recreate it even if he knows what he is seeing. The score is I think the greatest example. Credit him for wanting a symphonic score as opposed to synthesized music that was trendy in the 70s. but he didn't expect in a million years for john williams to come up with THAT. any symphonic score would have been fine and thats why we have all those annoying cut/paste jobs in the PT :(

plus the fact he almost certainly does not care and will continue to infantilize SW and just aim for lowest, easiest common denominator :(