Or is he the George Lucas for sensitive types? According to Alex Balk, yes:
[I.e.] you are a child when you are first exposed to his stuff and because you are a child you think it’s incredible, but when you encounter more of it as an adult you blame the material rather than the fact that it was always hokey as shit, and it’s not that it got any worse, it’s just that you got smarter, but to acknowledge that would be to betray your own innocence etc.