ObiWanKennerobi said:
He's on record that he...
With regard to anything Lucas says about Star Wars77, I'll read or listen only to what he said around 1977. After that, his quotes and stories are completely meaningless. He started to revise history as far back as the early 1980s.
It's impossible to track the number of times his versions of Star Wars history have changed and continue to change. As I've said before, whenever an interviewer asks him questions, he should just answer by burping the alphabet. His responses are that meaningless.
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To paraphrase Apocalypse Now; The bullshit piles up so fast with Lucas, you need wings to stay above it.