Lucas was glad that it was over. “You couldn’t pay me enough money to go through what you have to go through to make a movie,” he complained to the New York Times. “It’s excruciating. It’s horrible. You get physically sick. I get a very bad cough and a cold whenever I direct. I don’t know whether it’s psychosomatic or not. You feel terrible. There is an immense amount of pressure, and emotional pain.… But I do it anyway, and I really love to do it. It’s like climbing mountains.”84
