walking_carpet said:

zombie84 said:

I think he actually wanted Williams to use either classical pieces a la 2001, or Korngold's music from stuff like Captain Blood. And then Williams said he could do something like that but original and better and he came back with the SW score. I'm probably mixing up the details but that's sort of how that happened.

for the 1995 vhs releases, he told leonard maltin that he writes his screenplays to music. he wrote this on one of the CD releases as well. But the PT footage of him writing doesn't have any music playing in the background. not to mention it sort of conflicts his 'non-linear 3 dimensional editing' philosophy.

was this yet another lie? or another exaggeration - like how we all listen to our ipods when working, but thats not the same thing as 'writing to music'.

I'd always assumed that any time we see Lucas writing in one of those documentaries, it's staged. The crew need a few shots of him scribbling stuff so that's what he does.