“Success… is a very difficult emotional experience to go through,” he said. “It’s a very devastating experience when it happens. Some people can deal with [it], some people can’t. I thought in the beginning it was a piece of cake. I had a little bit of success with [American] Graffiti, and a lot of success with Star Wars, but the full impact didn’t hit me for a few years after that.”1 It was the beginning, he said, of “a several-year tailspin.”2
