ratpack1961 said:

Thank you for posting this DGA link. I must have seen this at one time but watching it again was pretty fascinating.

Besides the preservation conversation, his tale about the editing of the picture is definitely revisionist. He talks about firing the original editor and then hiring "assistant editors" to help him complete the film. In George's eyes he edited the film with some assistants helping him.

Those "assistants" won the academy award for their work.

Well, decades ago, the man obviously decided to live in an alternate reality. My favorite moment is when he describes the scripting process around the 9 minute mark.

"I wrote a giant script. The original film was basically subtitled The Tragedy of Darth Vader. And in the beginning Darth Vader comes in and kills everybody and in the middle you found out that this kid is actually the son of Darth Vader, and in the end the son validates, vindicates and allows the father to be ahh..." an awkward pause, Lucas scratches his nose and continues.

It's sad that even in an interview like that, he isn't able to be sincere when describing the writing process of what is essentially a simple fantasy movie. Instead he needs to burp his programmed "Lucasfilm mythology." The expression on Nolan's face is basically "What the hell are you talking about."