Star Wars

Yup, that was really the beauty of the thing. Twelve year old boys may have fucking loved it, but everybody found something to enjoy, and while I think the "saved in the edit" is a bit overly revisionist, it gets at the essential truth that unfiltered Lucas is worse than collaborative Lucas.

With George Lucas and interviews there are always two things things to keep in mind: first, he will inevitably oversimplify in a "draw the rest of the fucking owl" way that makes its success seem like an inscrutable miracle of personal genius that minimizes the contributions of his colleagues; and second, he will say some shit that's completely different from the last time somebody asked him the same question three years earlier.