This weekend I'm going to get my hands on as many Star Wars interviews/documentaries/articles as I can, to get all of this stuff fresh in my mind. I'll do some brainstorming too, then by Monday we should be ready to get the creative process rolling.
Some of the stuff I might not be able to get a hold of, since I'm in Japan. There are a number of things Lucas said in the interviews that were on the THX"original - one last time" versions, which I don't have with me over here. Mainly I remember him saying that he planned to direct only Episode I, and then hand it over to someone else to do Episode II, and someone else to do Episode III (which he didn't do, obviously). He also said in those interviews "movies are an art, not a business," which doesn't explain all the excessive merchandising.
Can someone watch those interviews and take notes? If someone has the time to type out what he said in those interviews, that would be awesome too. Anything he says that contradicts what he's been doing we can really use.