walking_carpet said:
you forgot the quote where he says fans wanted star wars to be like the matrix ;) these are all just his trademark cop-outs.
copouts, excuses, laziness, selfishness, deceit, dishonesty, greed, incompetance, god complex and cult of personality.

I wonder if we should have some sort of well-sourced, bulletproof rebuttal to point people to with regard to George's talking points and fallacies. So many people take him at face value. It's bad enough when Lucas fanboys believe the revisionism, but it's especially troubling when journalists do it.

Something brief akin to a FAQ that dispells the myths, but not so dense that people will go "tl;dr".