George Lucas Enjoys Directing Films

Lucas directing the opening scene to Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope.

Now, you may wonder why I'm making a blog about George Lucas liking directing. The guy's retired from directing major studio type films, in other words Franchise films, and will make more artistic films. Why woudn't he like to direct films? The thing that sprung this was a video I saw not too long ago. A live stream where someone was talking about various films and Star Wars and George Lucas came up and the guy went on about how George Lucas always hated directing, accept for American Graffiti. That was the only film he liked making, due to it being the most personal film he ever made. And with that, I'm gonna just say that George Lucas likes directing. In fact, he loves directing films. What people around him say about Lucas disliking directing say isn’t exactly accurate. The main reason is because he enjoys creating films. He loves making films. I’ve never seen or read an interview with Lucas saying he dislikes or hates directing. This is something people have made up overtime due to authors of various articles and blogs find some stuff from some actors and other people who worked with Lucas behind the scenes and find certain quotes that are with the narrative they want to create so then these quotes are taken out of context, so it does fit with the narrative of the writers intention when presenting a article or blog about something negative about Lucas, so people will read these and not look at the original sources and just take on face value that George Lucas did not like the position of directing.

 This is something I’ve seen constantly when reading people and talking to people about Lucas directing films later on in life, and then other people will say how he always hated directing and just parrot what they read or heard people say without looking into this themselves. The most sited source of this is an interview with Ron Howard when talking about working with George Lucas on American Graffiti and how he talked to him about going to film school and to direct himself. From this interview, what I see is often re-quoted is a remark that Lucas said to him, which is "If you're going to be a director, make animated films. That way you don't have to deal with actors." With this, it seems conclusive. But here's the thing: we don't really get the full context. I've never seen Howard ever repeat this in an interview and I only saw it in an article the first time years ago. I think this quote has been taken out of context so much that whatever the original quote was and what context it was made in may not resurface, not anytime soon at least. 

With all that said, pretty much all the actors to work with George Lucas have nothing but good things to say about him. I know Jake Lloyd has said negative things about Lucas in recent years with not giving him good direction in The Phantom Menace, but Lucas didn't really have experience working with child actors before Lloyd. I mean you could mention Mackenzie Phillips in American Graffiti, but she was 12 years old when she worked with Lucas, where Lloyd was 9 when he worked with Lucas. Phillips being a bit older than Lloyd may have helped the character that was written in terms of her performance. And while Lloyd made films before Star Wars, I don't exactly think he was one of the best child actors ever. That said, he did act like a kid in Episode I, which I think was the point of that role for that film, but that could be just me. Another reason for him saying negative things to Lucas was he would do 60 interviews every day until the film came out, and he was bullied at school after the film came out. With the interviews, I don't believe Lucas set those up. The distributing studio, 20th Century Fox, would have done such things, due to the fact Fox was distributing the film for Lucas worldwide. That wasn't Lucas's fault. And the bullying wasn't Lucas's fault either. That was the fault of asshole kids who would make lightsaber noises whenever he was around. It's sad Lloyd got bullied, but I just fail to see this was George Lucas’s fault at all. But Lloyd’s comments aside, all the other actors haven't said anything truly negative about him. He's basically described as somebody that's great to work with.

 The thing Lucas has often said he disliked when it came to film-making is screenwriting. He wanted to make documentaries where you don’t need to really write anything, just make a film about a topic and interview people. To Lucas this was how he wanted to make movies. But then he changed to making narrative type films, he wanted them to be abstract-like, which you then get films like THX-1138. Films that just really required a story, some characters and let the visuals tell everything with little dialogue required. George Lucas is a great visual director. I’d say one of the best visual directors ever. To him, he liked making films. Liked directing, producing, editing, but always disliked writing, but acknowledged the irony is what he mostly does now is write when he talked to Christopher Nolan during an interview/discussion about Star Wars when they screened Episode IV for people in 2011. The only thing he liked about writing was the creation of worlds, characters and the overall story. He’d rather have someone else take the pages he wrote for a story and write the script for him or collaborate with him in writing the script.

 Now with Star Wars V and VI, the reason he didn’t direct those films was because of how stressful it was for him directing Star Wars IV and also doing his best to establish his company and to have it flourish and produce different films than just the films Lucas made, basically what American Zoetrope was originally created for. As a result, he was still involved in making Empire and Jedi, by showing up on set time to time and offering his insight and advice to the directors of the films, yet he was going to make sure the effects team were on schedule and make sure the films were afloat financially. He then wrote stories and produced Indiana Jones, Willow and other films but he took a break from directing. He wanted to get back to directing by the 90s, but it was either make the prequels to the Star Wars trilogy, or create new and artistic type films sort of like THX-1138, and abandon Star Wars forever, because he said if he did go down that road, nobody would see anything new regarding Star Wars. But ever since he created a bit of back story for Star Wars from the original, unseen 300 page script that Lucas has talked about on occasion, which is essentially the story of the original trilogy, as well as taking inspiration from the various original drafts of the Episode IV script and from what he added to the back story with V and VI, he began to write the prequels and finally released them. 

But then when people began to not like them over time, as people enjoyed them initially, people didn’t just hate the films, but George himself. And while there are people who dislike him not releasing the original trilogy unaltered properly, George Lucas believes those are inferior versions and would be a waste of time to have them get a Blu-Ray release. Now, I would like to have the option of viewing the original Star Wars trilogy unaltered and the other special editions on Blu-Ray, but to Lucas he doesn’t get why people like the, in his eyes, incomplete theatrical versions of the films, rather than the special edition versions available on Blu-Ray and DVD. To him, those versions of the films shouldn’t have even been released in the first place. The technology with how he envisioned the films didn’t exist yet. The versions we have now are what people in the 70s and 80s were supposed to see. These versions were the visions of those films that were in his head when he crafted the story and made them after writing them and then he kept adding things to them over the years, whether people like the special editions or not is another story. Thing is, George Lucas has  OCD. He has OCD to the point that he kept reworking the effects and shots in the special editions of Star Wars all the way until he sold Lucasfilm to Disney.

 And to wrap this up with the George Lucas quit making films due to the hate, there is truth to it. Lucas himself said around 2009/2010 or so when asked when Episode VII would come out, “Never. Why would I make any more when people keep saying what a horrible person you are for making them?” The bashing of George Lucas is a reason for why we will never see any new film he directs. He said in 2012 that he will now be directing small, artistic independent films about topics nobody wants to see, but he will only show them to his friends and family. Nobody on the outside will get to see a new film directed by George Lucas. So it’s a combination of the hate he got online and how the films he wants to make now, are of topics and themes that he believes people won’t want to see. Now I could go on, but this is already long enough. Point is, George still likes directing and the people that constantly bashed him online did have a effect on him. And it’s sad that people don’t care about how much hate the dude has gotten over the years, as a lot of it is for the fact he made the prequels. I personally love the prequels, but I get that there are people who dislike them. But there’s no reason to keep hating the guy who made them. He is a nice guy after all. He made some films you didn’t like, is that really enough to hate someone?

George Lucas and Gary Kurtz.

Lucas and Kurtz on set of the original Star Wars in Tunisia, Africa.

Before I get into this, I want you all to know that this is all stuff I researched years ago, and I apologize for not having any sources with this. But I have to say, this is something I wanted to say for some time. Now I am going to say what I remember all those years ago when I researched some things about George Lucas years ago for a paper I wrote on him in school back in 2006, and as a result, I learned about Gary Kurtz and their working relationship. Upon learning of their friendship and partnership I wanted to try and find out why their working relationship ended as it did. So without further ado, here is what I have written about the subject. Again, sorry for no website sources, this is the best I was able to make with me trying to remember years ago. Also, this isn't intended to bash Kurtz, but to try and detail to people that Kurtz isn't the genius so many tote him as. The best source I can give that is accessible to everyone is J.W. Rinzler’s Making of Star Wars books as he wrote books on the making of Episodes III-VI. He didn’t make books on the first two films of the prequels, but the books he wrote, especially the Original Trilogy books, are truly amazing and so no doubt those will have even more detail than I can give in this blog and so if I might be mistaken here or there, I’m going from memory as it’s been quite sometime since I’ve read those books and so my memory at times might not be the absolute best, but hopefully this will be a good introduction to what happened to their friendship and working relationship.

*Update* Today is May 16, 2026, about 10 years after writing this blog post and I want to say I recently got the Making of Books regarding the Star Wars trilogy and so I made a video correcting what I said below. Some of the information is good, while other is not correct due to misremembering as well as going on bits and pieces of information that not only were taken out of context, but also just switching things around so what I said happened on one film actually occurred on another as people conflated what happened in one film and applied it to another. At the end of this blog post, I’ll leave a link to my video where I correct the information I got wrong. I’ve also changed the ending a bit as I didn’t mean to imply that Rick McCallum was as a Yes Man and didn’t challenge George, so if you ever read this before and notice a difference in the end, that is why. *End of Update*



 Now I'm just going to say that Gary Kurtz has lying for a long time about the working relationship of himself and George Lucas. Kurtz may not have been thrilled of how Return of the Jedi and the Prequels turned out now, he may have been jealous of all the money Lucas made from the Star Wars films Kurtz wasn't involved with, but he was very instrumental in the reason he didn't get to be involved with those films also, since he left the company. Basically, Kurtz would've been compensated handsomely for his help with the films had he stayed on working with Lucas, but he decided to leave Lucasfilm after certain disagreements he had with Lucas and ever since, his career has gone down hill. I think Gary wishes he was part of Lucas' team after Empire so he could've wreaked some of the benefits that Lucas got. Kurtz is essentially someone who doesn't know how to handle a big budget film. He tries to take over the movies he produces and make them the way he'd want. George Lucas was influenced by Joseph Campbell, writer of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, a book that helped Lucas when crafting the story and characters of Star Wars, but Kurtz has tried to imply that he wasn't, and likes to insist a lot of what made Star Wars great was from him and him alone, while Lucas had little to no involvement in the creative process. Kurtz left Lucasfilm as he was unable to get the Star Wars series to go the direction he wanted, as well as clashing with Lucas regarding the budget for Empire. But I will now give you the reasons as to what all happens to cause Lucas and Kurtz’s partnership come to an end:

  He basically wants to take over control completely from whoever was directing the film. Just as he did later on in other films he produced. I know it may seem like I'm repeating myself, but this is very important to remember. Something else that Kurtz wants people to believe is that certain things were changed to sell toys and Lucas didn't care about the story at all after the huge success of Star Wars and Empire action figures and merchandise.

Lucas was interested in the story of Star Wars. For instance: He changed certain things in Jedi, like Ewoks on Endor, as he wanted a species not familiar with using technology. Wookiees were supposed to be the species, but Lucas changed it as Chewbacca was familiar with technology, and thus suggest that all Wookiees are able to use technology, at least in Lucas' mind. Kurtz claims Ewoks were put in to sell more toys, yet Wookiees would probably be able to sell just as well, if not better, than Ewoks since we're familiar with the species at this point. Also, a good number of the Ewoks aren't that cute, aside from Wicket and a few others, the majority are fairly ugly to say the least and that isn't a good strategy if you're making a new species for your movie with the sole intent on have them sell toys, and you make the teddy bear like creatures ugly, to me that's a bad marketing strategy personally. That tidbit that's often brought up aside, Lucas had made a killing on toys and merchandise from the very first Star Wars film, so much so, the toys and merchandising money is what was used in part to fund Empire and Jedi, and the toys and merchandise from Empire helped fund Jedi as well. On the subject of the Ewoks, they are creatures you don't expect to be as big of a help as they become. In the end, they are a distraction for the rebels, as the Empire focuses half its time on the rebels and on the Ewoks, all the while the rebels destroy the shield generator so the Death Star is destroyed. Because of Luke convincing the others to give the Ewoks their weapons, and saying it'll all be alright it is reminiscent of what Luke learned with Yoda: Don't underestimate a creature that is small. Also, Luke using the Force on C-3PO, do demonstrate the "Power" 3PO has, since the Ewoks view him as a God, it's this which convinced the Ewoks to not cook and eat him, Han, Chewbacca and do whatever to R2 and eventually welcome the rebels as their own. Lucas made certain changes that worked with the movie better, as some things needed to either change or be compromised in the script. That's something that happens often in movies, ideas change. Maybe Kurtz and Lucas talked about certain things that would happen in Jedi, and upon looking at his story he drew up, he didn't think Kurtz's ideas would be able to work with the story he made, without doing a major rewrite to the whole story he already laid out for the third film in the trilogy.  
I mentioned the Death Star earlier, which many people do complain about with Jedi, and the reason for the second Death Star in the film is because in the first (fourth) film, it's said in a important scene, which is the Death Star board meeting, that the Republic and Senate are now gone thanks to the Emperor and that the systems will be controlled by the Empire with fear of the Death Star. And once the senate and republic were gone, the Death Star was destroyed and the Rebels probably got more support, so the Empire needed another Death Star to instill more fear, since they're not as feared as they were before. I know in the 300 page Star Wars script with basically the whole Original Trilogy told, and a brief prologue with the Prequels for some context of certain events and characters, the Death Star was shown at the end of the script, but because Lucas wasn't certain if he'd get the other films made after the first film, he put the Death Star in the first film, and with that little dialogue that was mentioned in the board room Death Star meeting in A New Hope, this ties with the unfinished Death Star shown in Return of the Jedi, since the Death Star was put in place of the Senate and Republic and that the Empire were then essentially the government to the galaxy, with the Death Star being a weapon to persuade planets to aligned with them, or else the planet would be destroyed if not complying with the Empire. Thus, when the Death Star is destroyed, the Emperor had put that in the place of a Republic and Senate, therefore another Death Star was needed as a Death Star was the policy of the Empire. Due to the little dialogue ANH had, this gives credence for a second Death Star by the time ROTJ comes along. Three years pass between ANH and ESB, so construction could've begun months later, hence it's not finished when we see it in ROTJ. Another thing that Kurtz also wanted was a dark ending, with Luke turning to the dark side, basically declaring himself the new Vader of the galaxy and will crush the Rebellion.

So, let's talk about this dark ending that has been heard for sometime about Return of the Jedi. Essentially with the whole ending of Jedi is what seems to be the big disagreement that Lucas and Kurtz' had. Kurtz basically wanted a dark ending for the film and the overall trilogy. And while Lucas may have took the suggestion of the dark ending, with Luke turning to the dark side, under advisement and thought about it, when looking at the story he made, it wouldn't work to him. Mainly because the films are space opera with some fantasy elements. And the fantasy element comes into play with some of the general stuff with the story, such as the character arcs, and he wanted the films to reflect that while the melodrama story would be there for the major Space Opera moments like the theatrical acting and melodramatic dialogue with a science fiction background was there for the space ships and lightsabers and guns and all that fun stuff. And fantasies usually have happy endings, particularly for the heroes. Many will often have a fairy tale type ending where the heroes win and all is good with the world they live in. In Star Wars, the balance of the force was restored and things were peaceful again. The whole point of the story was for Luke to redeem his father and bring balance to the force. That's not something that would happen if he went evil, as the force would be temporally balanced only for it to go back to the way it was as soon as Luke went to the dark side. Nothing was really accomplished as Luke went on to the dark side, the easy route and just essentially said "screw the Rebellion and Jedi, I want to rule the galaxy." That doesn't seem like it would be a good ending to the Star Wars trilogy to me. To Lucas, the idea of a dark ending didn't fit with the story he wanted told. And because he wanted these movies made, he got other directors to make them for him while he helped a great deal in the creative process so that both his vision and the directors vision would make up the film, and certain compromises would be made, but something as huge as the story and how the trilogy would end, isn't something Lucas wanted to compromise entirely. Some tweaks here and there throughout the film sure, to stay within the budget and not go over, but as long as the vision of his story was realized that's what mattered to him. He got directors who would respect and see his vision through while putting their stamp on the film as well. Kurtz didn't like his vision so he left Lucasfilm for good.
Now, with all this said, all this was from Kurtz's side I've just explained. Though half way through the production on Empire, when production was stalled and Lucas came in to fix things, Kurtz was actually fired just before the last few weeks of filming finished. I'd suggest reading J.W. Rinzler's 'Making of the Empire Strikes Back'. Gary Kurtz says lots of things mostly out of spite. Lucas was actually advised not to rehire Kurtz for Empire, though Lucas and him worked together on American Graffiti and Star Wars so he got hired again anyway. But as the film production went on, and things went behind schedule, Lucas ended up relieving Kurtz of his producer role towards the end of the production of Empire, as already mentioned, and Howard Kazanjian and Robert Watts took over direct control of the producers role on the production from there. Kershner thought little of Kurtz, as he kept trying to take control of production as well as being ignorant to making a big budget movie. It seems that these "Ideas" Kurtz was talking with Lucas about, were most likely little discussions of the possible future of Star Wars after Empire finished up and production on the third film would then go underway, but Kurtz makes it sound like he was involved in the early stages of Jedi before leaving. He's basically taken these little discussions he and Lucas may have had early on of where the series would go, based on Lucas' story treatment, but nothing was set in stone, as Lucas wanted to get the making of Empire done first, then he could think about the next sequel, though as we know Lucas made Raiders of the Lost Ark between Empire and Jedi, since Indiana Jones was something Lucas wanted to get made as that was an idea he had that was as old as Star Wars, but he got Steven Spielberg to direct that franchise, not only due to his stressful time directing Star Wars, but quite possibly, an unspoken reason too, was in part of Kurtz trying to get the film Lucas was making into the direction that Kurtz wanted instead, and not doing the role of a producer properly, though this might not be as clear with ANH as there were many things that happened to cause problems during the making of that film that's been documented in books and documentaries/behind the scenes footage during the making of that film. 

 Basically from all of this, Kurtz would try to tell Lucas they should do this and that, and it would appear as if Kurtz was the director and Lucas was just the producer. Kurtz just wanted to take control of every aspect on Empire that he could, as he tried to do on Star Wars, but while Lucas took some suggestions of his on that film, he did things the way he wanted on the first film as Lucas knew what he wanted and did what he could with the budget they had. Again, I don't really want to blame the problems the production Star Wars IV had on Kurtz as many things happened out of the control of Lucas and Krutz. Though, Kurtz has played a part in the now popular "Lucas didn't have free control of Star Wars" argument. Lucas actually did, the only thing the studio executives would do and say to Lucas was "you have a deadline and we will not give you any extension for it, so you better be finished filming your silly movie, otherwise this thing will never see the light of day." Alan Ladd, Jr. was the only one on Lucas' side when he was making Star Wars, and could only do so much to convince the studio to let him finish filming the movie. Plus Star Wars' production went over budget due to Kurtz not knowing how to handle a big budget movie. When Empire was directed by someone other than Lucas, Kurtz tried to take over creative control again, and again, production stalled as a result of Kurtz not knowing what he was doing money wise, so the film went over budget and Lucas came to the set more often than he wanted and had to make things go back on schedule by paying for this and that so that filming could commence again, which is telling from the set photos of Lucas, Kershner and the actors together on set.

 Kurtz, in the end I believe, is jealous of how smart of a filmmaker and business man Lucas is. I say business man, as you kinda need to be one in the film business when being a producer. He was able to come in and within a matter of time, fix any money problems the film would have, as Lucas financed Empire himself and for the first Star Wars, he had to fight to get the film completed the way he envisioned it himself while Kurtz would occasionally tell him if they could or couldn't do something due to the budget. And again, Kurtz is also the reason the first two Star Wars films went over budget. I'm trying to make sure this is a point people understand. Kurtz doesn't know how to handle producing a big budget film. With the Star Wars films, the big budget being handled by him and Lucas, Kurtz probably saw an opportunity to make a film the way he'd like to see it. But, Lucas was the one with the 250-300 page outline for the Star Wars trilogy, with some pages in the beginning about the friendship Obi-Wan, Anakin and Darth Vader had before Vader turned evil. Lucas was the director, and was the one who directed the acclaimed "American Graffiti". Kurtz did share a producers credit for that film, but Francis Ford Coppola produced the film with him as well. With Star Wars, Kurtz probably didn't understand the story, as only Lucas was the one who understood it and it was hard to get people on board to take a chance on a film where "Dogs fly Spaceships" and a bar has a bunch of Aliens in them. Alan Ladd, Jr. took a chance on Star Wars because he saw George Lucas had talent with "Graffiti". Another thing I think is good to mention is Lucas was able to fix the problems Kurtz put some of the films he produced later on too. The sequel to Wizard of Oz, Return to Oz, was able to continue production as Lucas came in and gave enough money for the film to continue production after Kurtz screwed up money wise, as they went over budget. Before this, the film had to halt it's production as they needed to figure out how to be able to get back on track, and then Lucas came into the picture to help. Lucas also saved Kurtz from being fired as a producer on Dark Crystal, as Jim Henson wanted to fire Kurtz for being a terrible producer and trying to take control of direction, yet again, on a film he had no idea how to make. Lucas convinced Henson to let Kurtz stay as a producer and I recall reading years ago that he even helped pay some of the money they lost due to Kurtz's negligence, but it’s been sometime since I’ve read regarding Lucas and Henson when it came to Dark Crystal. I do know that the two were in contact for years, mainly since Henson was Lucas’s first choice to be Yoda, but Henson turned it down due to being busy and suggested Frank Oz who then portrayed Yoda. Because of this friendship and Lucas’s past working relationship with Kurtz, I don’t find it outlandish that he prevented Kurtz’s firing as a producer and I think it’s not too out there to believe Lucas even covered the cost of the money that was gone as a result of Kurtz’s fumbling with money. He did it before with Empire Strikes Back, which was Lucas’s film and then as mentioned earlier, Lucas helped out with Return to Oz in order to get that back on schedule and finished in as timely a manor as one could after the film was halted due to going over budget.

 At the end of it, Kurtz's career was saved by Lucas, and he seems to resent how much of a better filmmaker Lucas is than him rather than be happy his career didn't just crash and burn. Another thing I also have seen a lot of is that people make it as if the relationship between Lucas and Kurtz had were that of best friends or something to that effect. Lucas and Kurtz were not best buds. If you look at Lucas, like most people, he has friends, and he has business partners/co-workers. Walter Murch, Brian de Palma, John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg are all friends. In fact Lucas' friends have been friends with him for decades, he clearly values friendships. Heck the evidence that Lucas and Kurtz were never buddies can be found in Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola and Lucas had an enormous and public falling out, mainly based on Coppola's resentment of Lucas' success (Coppola said as much) of Star Wars when he couldn't direct Apocalypse Now, a film that Lucas helped write in the early stages of the films inception and was going to direct the film as Coppola was set to produce the film after Lucas' THX-1138, but that didn't pan out as THX-1138 tanked at the box office, and by the time both men had hits under their belts, Coppola with The Godfather and Lucas with American Graffiti, Lucas got busy with Star Wars and wasn't able to make Apocalypse Now like they planned on, plus the success of Star Wars, which pretty much meant that the next two films of the Original Trilogy could get made and his time would be focused on those films instead, there friendship ended for some years. plus Lucas and Spielberg also started working on Indiana Jones between Empire and Jedi which may not helped matters with Lucas and Coppola.
 But eventually, that relationship was patched up as we know and they remain close friends to this day. You see, Kurtz was never in that inner circle like Coppola or Spielberg have been; he was a guy hired to do a job. Heck Lucas even attempted to "bury the hatchet" years ago and invited him to his AFI Awards dinner, and tried to involve him in a number of Star Wars anniversary projects, even while Kurtz was bad mouthing him on the convention circuit. Say what you will about Lucas as filmmaker, but at least he knows how to tell stories and makes them the way he wants. I think Kurtz is in part of a reason Lucas had a bunch of "yes men", as people say, with him on the prequels, as he didn't want a producer that would try to take control of his vision he had and as a result he got people that wouldn't challenge him a whole lot in a constructive way. If anything it was an alternative decision that would either be really good, or really bad. Kurtz tried to take direction away from George as he never worked on a such a big budget before and wanted to take advantage of that, while Rick McCallum had worked on producing projects at Lucasfilm from the 90s, like working on Adventure of Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, which had quite a bit of effects in it, and so he had an idea as to what would work and what wouldn’t when it came to ensuring Lucas had as easy of a production on the prequels as possible.
When it comes to the whole “Yes Men” accusations, if you look at behind the scenes featurettes and documentaries, you can see that there were people who did question certain things Lucas was doing in the Prequels and they even convinced Lucas to change certain things or put certain things in the movies he hadn't thought about before. They didn't always agree with Lucas, so I wouldn't say he was around a lot of "yes men" myself. I know I implied in my writing that I thought George had hired Yes Men, but I don’t think that’s actually true. Plus most of the things Kurtz says about his huge involvement really comes from himself, you know a lot of "hear say", as I don't recall other people involved with the films talking about these things that Kurtz talks about. I rarely heard in the many interviews I've seen with the cast and crew of The Original Star Wars Trilogy where people talked a whole lot about him. Sure occasionally, Mark, Carrie or Harrison would mention him, but they'd talk about Lucas or the other actors more. They'd just mention Kurtz in a few sentences or so when talking about the making of the movie compared to George. Even when talking about Empire or Jedi, Lucas would get mentioned more than the producer. They'd talk as much about him just as much as they did the directors of those two films than the producer, but then again, Lucas was heavily involved with those two films as well. That's all I've got to say on the matter. Thank you for reading.

*So now, click this link to my over hour long video regarding my discussion on the Making of Star Wars. To get into correcting the inaccuracies of this blog, go to about 10 minutes.*