Star Wars is so ubiquitous, so deeply embedded in our culture, that many people are afraid to admit they haven't seen it. They fear derision, pained expressions, and the inevitable, "Oh man, you've got to see Star Wars. Not the prequels, obviously, they were terrible, but the first three. They're essential, man." Many people simply pretend they've seen the movies, nod enthusiastically enough to avoid the conversation, and then move on.Not John Williams, though, who wrote all of the music for Star Wars but admitted yesterday that he has not, in fact, seen a single movie in the series from beginning to end. "I let it go. I have not looked at the Star Wars films and that's absolutely true," he told the British tabloid The Mirror.Williams talks about his process the same way that most of us treat washing up. "When I'm finished with a film, I've been living with it, we've been dubbing it, recording to it, and so on," he said. "You walk out of the studio and, 'Ah, it's finished.' Now I don't have an impulse to go to the theater and look at it."'I'm not particularly proud of that, I have to say," he added. "But it's also part of the fact that I finished Star Wars now and I'm already working on Spielberg's new film and I don't want to listen to music or see films."To compound it all, Williams said that he didn't even consider his Star Wars compositions to be all that good. "I don't know. A lot of them are not very memorable and so on," he said of music that is definitely remembered by literally millions of people around the world.Follow Noisey on Twitter.
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