Multibillionaire übergeek George Lucas has an interview in the Times of London this week, and it’s fairly clear that he and the interviewer are playing softball. Okay, George does refer to next year’s Star Wars television series, a project that promises to play to all his worst instincts. And a moment later, he makes a thinly veiled threat to give us a fifth Indiana Jones movie. But mostly it’s pretty mild stuff: George’s career, his family, and his extraordinarily high opinion of himself:

I am the father of our Star Wars movie world—the filmed entertainment, the features and now the animated film and television series,” he says. “And I’m going to do a live-action television series. Those are all things I am very involved in: I set them up and I train the people and I go through them all. I’m the father; that’s my work. Then we have the licensing group, which does the games, toys and books, and all that other stuff. I call that the son—and the son does pretty much what he wants.” He laughs. “Once in a while, they ask a question like ‘Can we kill off Yoda?’, things like that, but it’s very loose. Then we have the third group, the holy ghost, which is the bloggers and fans. They have created their own world. I worry about the father’s world. The son and holy ghost can go their own way.”

Personally, George, I would have said that the mere existence of Jar Jar Binks was a convincing argument that there is no God. At the very least, for that act of creation you deserve to get busted back to Demi-Deity, Junior Grade. And while you’re working your way back up, learn to write romantic dialogue that’s less cringingly lame than the drivel spouted by Anakin and Padmé. Role models like that are one reason your most devoted worshippers tend to be celibate.