George Lucas: Hollywood Is a "Circus" — hollywoodreporter.com

Two of the most high-profile independent moviemakers of the last half-century, George Lucas and Robert Redford, came together at the “Power of Story: Visions of Indendence” panel at the Sundance Film Festival with critic Leonard Maltin Thursday afternoon, to discuss their experiences in the industry. In a wide-ranging conversation that went from both men’s origins as movie fans — something that Lucas said didn’t happen until he was in college studying photography, joking “before that, I was just a dumb kid that loved cars” — to the origins of Lucas’ creative empire, the three men focused on the restrictions of the studio system and the benefits of working independently.

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