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But it was a shortsightedness born of Lucas’s own kind of intense focus and drive. Giving up Pixar hadn’t cost him anything creatively—he’d still be able to use the computer, after all—and it hadn’t required him to compromise his own conception of films or filmmaking.
“It’s my biggest movie,” Lucas said of Skywalker Ranch. “I’ve always been a frustrated architect.”60
“George Lucas helps his friends with whatever they’re doing,” said producer Tom Luddy, a friend to both Lucas and Wexler. “He’s the kind of person who is loyal to his friends. And Haskell Wexler is one of his oldest friends.”63
want to try to do some films that no one has ever done, [regardless of] whether they’re watched, whether they’re successful.”
Henson took it hard; Lucas didn’t. “It’s disappointing when something doesn’t work, but it’s part of the game,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “You win some, you lose some.”
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