“I hate to say it, but basically I’m retiring,” George Lucas said Monday during a dinner with higher-ups at Ebony, according to a New York Daily News blog post. But he goes on to say he wants to focus on making more movies – without having “to worry about entertaining people.” Which is pretty much what he’s been saying for years! Oh, George.
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Decades, actually. The earliest statement about his “personal movies” that I have found so far dates back to winter 1977. ;-)
If he makes just one more film like American Graffiti, I will be content. That movie is incredible, and he’s never made a better one since.
“…experimental films and that sort of thing, maybe documentaries and that sort of thing.”
George Lucas, 1968 – via : Academy of Achievement
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/luc0int-2/
“…retire from professional filmmaking and go into making my own kind of movies, my own sort of abstract, weird, experimental stuff.”
George Lucas, 1977.05.25 – via : Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7330268/the_force_behind_star_wars/
“…go off and direct my own little experimental films”
George Lucas, 2005.06.28 – via : Wired
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2005/-6/68017/