The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.

Perhaps more typical is maybe three, four more stops before he settles in. That's the way it goes. You have to just wait for the right opportunity. Here, because of the opening, was a legitimate shot for him,

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.

The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.

Go back in the other room. Listen to me. Five, four, three. ...

A lot of journalists who'd never dealt with Lucas, when they started competing ferociously for these stories, what they discovered is the land of Lucas is a very tightly controlled, rather rigorous domain.