George Lucas said Soviet directors had more freedom.

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In an interview with Charlie Rose, Star Wars creator George Lucas said his Soviet colleagues enjoyed more freedom than American directors, reports The Wall Street Journal.

According to Lucas, there is such a system in the West that filmmakers cannot afford to lose money. Therefore, according to the director, filmmakers are forced to make films of a certain type.

“I always said this - even when Russia was the USSR. People asked, “Aren’t you glad you’re in America?” — and I replied that I actually know many Russian filmmakers, and they have much more freedom than I do. All they have to do is be careful in criticizing the government. Other than that, they can do whatever they want,” Lucas said.

The director criticized the latest, seventh, episode of Star Wars, directed by Jeffrey Jacob Abrams and released in December last year.

Speaking about "Star Wars", Lucas noted that all the films are his children and he loves them, reports The New York Times. “And I sold them to white slave traders, who took them, and...” the director stated with bitter irony, without finishing. Lucas didn’t like that the last film turned out to be too “retro,” while he himself always tried to make each new picture different from the previous ones.

According to Lucas, the studio Walt Disney was not interested in the fact that he worked on a new picture.

As Forum previously wrote, the film “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” in the first 12 days at the worldwide box office collected more than one billion dollars: 544 million new episode of the saga received at home, another 546 million in the piggy bank brought international fees. For the first weekend of the seventh episode of the legendary saga gathered in the world box office 517 millions of dollars, including a record 238 millions in the USA and Canada.