Also, going by your logic that director's quotes are always canon...your entire timeline is shot.
Shigeru Miyamoto said in 1998 that the order was:
OoT-LoZ-AoL-aLttP
and that he wasn't sure where LA fit.
So, going by a directors quote made even AFTER aLttP had been out for a long time, it's the last in the series.
The fact is, things change. When FS came out, they probably hadn't even decided on a split timeline yet. That really changes where things go.
In-game evidence is always better than directors quotes, especially pre-release quotes.