Lucas is sorry you like all that old crap

AP: Why not release both the originals and special editions on DVD?

Lucas: The special edition, that’s the one I wanted out there. The other movie, it’s on VHS, if anybody wants it. ... I’m not going to spend the, we’re talking millions of dollars here, the money and the time to refurbish that, because to me, it doesn’t really exist anymore. It’s like this is the movie I wanted it to be, and I’m sorry you saw half a completed film and fell in love with it. But I want it to be the way I want it to be. I’m the one who has to take responsibility for it. I’m the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they’re going to throw rocks at me, they’re going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished.

You know what, I bet if they just put out shitty copies of the original trilogy on DVD that would sell like a mofo. "...it's on VHS, if anybody wants it..." sorry you pathetic sci-fi fans bought all those crappy copies of 20 percent of a movie. It's not like I'd put some of those millions back into copies of that film so that you can spend more money on more copies of it.

To me, that means we should be able to bootleg the crap out of the original versions.