Ditch diggers wanted

Why didn't George Lucas put an ad on www.craigslist.org and save a bundle of money?
Wanted: Ditch digger. Must like blue screens and Comic-Cons. Handsome face a plus.
The Galley Slaves blog points us to a revealing interview in The Washington Post with Hayden "Darth" Christensen about his time working under the "Star Wars" mastermind.
The whole interview is here, but this is the money paragraph:

"George came up to me on the set one day during my first 'Star Wars' and said something that I never fully understood until after we were done filming. He said, 'As an actor, you have to think of yourself as a ditch digger.' . . . What he was implying was that on his movie, I needed to think of myself as a ditch digger, because it wasn't the proper arena for actual creative expression.

Do yourself a favor and read it all. Makes me feel badly for critiquing his recent performances. Clearly, he had the worst possible teacher at a very impressionable age.