Director: So, What's the Deal with Leia's Hair?

George Lucas never meant to become a filmmaker. As a teen, he dreamed of becoming an anthropologist and later an illustrator, which his father, the owner of a stationery store, called "not a proper occupation." But Lucas is sure that the Force was always with him. "I believe that even if I had become an anthropologist, I still would've started making movies and ended up right where I am now," he says. "This path has been too strongly etched, and it's too winding." While he has been wandering, we've been wondering:

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