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According to George Lucas, the character Han Solo from Star Wars series was based on X. X is one of the most influential directors of all time. Although his career as a film director started with a low budget softcore porn flick, he soon found his niche and delivered four masterpieces, all within a single decade. Often he had severe clash with the producers over the choice of his actors or with his way of direction. He is also a noted scriptwriter, winning multiple Academy Awards for Best Screenplay, two in films directed by himself. Criticisms of him tend towards the fact that all his productivity was confined to one decade only, after which his creativity slowly dwindled away.  However that one decade is more than enough to see him into a respected position in almost all polls for top directors of all time conducted by different magazines. Identify X. (The pic is that of X during childhood.)