Awesome interview before Lucas went to be a green screen junkie...

1,2,3 were amazing. Not joking

3 was great, 1, 2 were made for the lulz

This is a great interview with younger Lucas. 5 love the shot of the walking down the hill together!

My god, what happened to this man? It's as if he was a real artist once, with an artists sensibility. His success with the first Star Wars seems to have warped his mind. Watching this could almost give one the impression that that you were seeing the next Kubrick - instead we got Ewoks, Jar Jar, terrible direction of actors, unintentionally hilarious dialogue, dialogue physically painful to listen to, constant revisionism of his own work, lifeless CGI trainwrecks of epic proportion, Howard the Duck and Kingdom of the FUCKING Crystal Skull

Is this an interview or a nature video?

Great all around, but the content from 44:45 until the end is definitely the most insightful with regard to today's world of user-generated content/media. Very awesome to see.

Skip to 44:45? Are you kidding? They'll miss the goat footage.

Very insightful, but I feel like the interviewer was putting a lot of hopes on cassette tapes and cable TV. I suppose some of what he'd hoped for with cable, mainly the ability for everyone to find something they want to watch, instead of being forced between 7 channels or turning it off, has finally been realized. But his ideas of cassette tapes were completely off. Cassettes didn't allow hundreds of thousands of artists to get their ideas seen, I think it just allowed the big studios like WB to get more viewers to watch their movies made for the "mass audience." I'd argue that merely 6 years later Lucas changed cinema forever into a medium that I don't think the interviewer would have liked. Grandiose, traditional stories that appealed to millions. I think what he forgot is that one thing puts the big studios above the little guys: marketing. Marketing allows your movie to be known and distributed and seen. Without these essential things no one is going to know or care about your movie, let alone watch it. However, I wonder what the interviewer's thoughts on youtube are, seems like it's what he's been hoping for.

Ah, yes, back when he had talent.

Wow TV back then sucked.

Amazing how clairvoyant the presenter turns out to be when discussing the decentralization of media distribution through technology. He mentions technology as a means of opening up power even though it has always been popular to depict it as being repressive. As he says the same tech that enables rockets (and hence weapons) will someday enable the decentralization of power. He saw that trend in 1971, before VHS even and when the internet was just a gleam in the eye of some scientists at DARPA! That's what I call an intellectual. Someone who can recognize patterns very early.

my personal favorite filmmaker. he's not selling out by exploring the heck out of cgi. since his early years of filmmaking, he has always been looking for new possibilities, and cgi is steadily improving all of the time. check out his speech on story telling and special effects at afi screening of Star Wars in 2007. his newer movies aren't as personal as Star Wars, THX, and Graffiti because he is isn't as much of a director as an entrepeneur, and a hell of one too. best director AND industry pioneer IMHO.

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