George Lucas: If you look at Blade Runner, it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday and there are all kinds of different versions of it. Star Wars, there’s basically one version — it just keeps getting improved a little bit as we move forward. … All art is technology and it improves every year. Whether it’s on the stage or in music or in painting, there are technological answers that happen, and because movies are so technological, the advances become more obvious.
Star Wars the software. It's unfortunate that it isn't advertised as such then, Star Wars beta, 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 and so forth. People are buying work in progress after all.
Lucas: Well, it’s not a religious event. I hate to tell people that. It’s a movie, just a movie.
If only Lucas would see it that way.