QUOTE OF THE DAY:

Disney right now: “George Lucas doesn’t like the new Star Wars movie. Do we have room for that in the promotional material?”

—James Lileks on Twitter, yesterday.

Related:

The hourlong interview, broadcast on Dec. 25 and released online this week, focused on Mr. Lucas’s legacy, which was celebrated at the Kennedy Center Honors this month. But he was harsh in criticizing the film industry for focusing on profit over storytelling.

At one point he said that filmmakers in the Soviet Union had more freedom than their counterparts in Hollywood, who, he maintained, “have to adhere to a very narrow line of commercialism.”

Nahh — Stalin always kept the final cut. In more ways than one.

(And as Stephen Miller tweets, “Name the Soviet Union filmmaker who is now a billionaire several times over.”)