As if a million souls cried out in torment and were silenced at once. Those are the terms in which Lucas is treated in John Seabrook's January 6 New Yorker profile.
Nothing comes easy.
I believed him. He was Yoda, after all. He had lived for almost nine hundred years. Back here on earth, Lucas seems a lot closer to Darth Vader. But while D. W. Griffith catapulted movies beyond their two-reeler status, Lucas has returned them to that nickelodeon mentality.