In an interview, Tarantino told interviewer Samuel Blumenfeld, " Spielberg is doing something unheard of with the opening of this movie.

Kassar then told him to arrive at the San Jose Airport a few days later to have a meeting with Spielberg.

Before leaving, McQueen told Spielberg that he could not accept the role because he was unable to cry on cue.

They told me they needed this film out immediately ," Spielberg explained.

In October 1975, Steven Spielberg told the San Francisco Film Festival that " making a sequel to anything is just a cheap carny trick " and that he did not even respond to the producers when they asked him to direct Jaws 2.

Loomis told Spielberg that his Close Encounters sounded great, but it wasn't " toyetic.

The scene in which he presses up against a window to look into a classroom filled with American " schoolmice " is based on a story Spielberg remembered about his grandfather, who told him that Jews were only able to listen to school lessons through open windows while sitting outside in the snow.

Belushi told Spielberg he wanted to appear in another part of the movie and the idea struck Spielberg as very humorous.

According to Jack Nicholson, Stanley Kubrick allegedly told Steven Spielberg that 1941 was " great, but not funny.

Steven Spielberg told James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio that as a young man he snuck onto the soundstage to observe the filming, and remained for 45 minutes before an assistant producer asked him to leave.

When being interviewed by Spielberg before the making for the film, Burkhut told of a young girl wearing a pink coat, no older than four, who was shot by a Nazi officer right before his eyes.

' I actually got quite angry with Spielberg, who was and is a good friend, and told him just to film Zaillian's script.

Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, for example, told Ian Sharp they loved Who Dares Wins, and therefore they chose Sharp to work as the 2nd Unit director in their 1988 film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Spielberg told her mother " You've got to put her in front of a camera!

In 1977, Kenner Toys advertising and development executive Bernard Loomis discussed the marketability of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a film in preproduction by director Steven Spielberg.

Following the commercial success of the film in June 1982, Steve Ross, chief executive officer ( CEO ) of Atari's parent company Warner Communications, started negotiations with Steven Spielberg and Universal Pictures to acquire the license to produce a video game based on the film.

In addition, Spielberg said that the multiple license plates on the front bumper of the Peterbilt subtly suggested that the truck driver is a serial killer, having " run down other drivers in other states.

As an added homage to Jaws, the license plate pulled from the shark's teeth by Carter at the beginning of the film, is the same plate found in the tiger shark carcass from the 1975 Steven Spielberg film.

Though Spielberg was interested in casting Ford in the lead role from the start, Lucas was not, due to having already worked with the actor in American Graffiti and Star Wars, but he eventually relented after Tom Selleck was unable to accept.

held the global record until it was usurped by Jurassic Park — another Spielberg directed film — in 1993, although it managed to hold on to the domestic record for a further four years, where a Star Wars reissue saw that film reclaim the record.

Spielberg called Williams ' work " When You Wish upon a Star meets science fiction ".

Spielberg wanted to have " When You Wish upon a Star " in the closing credits, but was denied permission ( though the song's signature melody can be heard briefly just before Roy Neary turns to board the mothership ).

He then made joking references that both Jack Black and Steven Spielberg are fans of Star Control.

He is the lead for the Steven Spielberg produced 2012 ABC series The River and will reprise his role as Admiral Christopher Pike for J. J. Abrams ' Star Trek Into Darkness.

Spielberg and his fellow filmmaker George Lucas ( whose 1977 film Star Wars was the most successful film of that decade ) are the film-makers most closely associated with the beginning of the blockbuster era.

This led to numerous Lucas productions such as the following Star Wars sequels and Indiana Jones francshie being made at Elstree and also brought in directors Steven Spielberg and Jim Henson.

Milius and his friends George Lucas and Steven Spielberg famously agreed to exchange a percentage point of Big Wednesday, Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind prior to the release of the three films throughout 1977-78.

His subjects have been Star Wars movies The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, Andrew Weil, Michael Moore, Ronald Reagan, Russell Crowe, Johnny Cash, The Matrix Reloaded, vegetarianism, yoga, The Blair Witch Project, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Carrey, Steven Spielberg twice, Dreamworks, talk radio, the 1994 – 95 Major League Baseball strike, the campaign against smoking, Candice Bergen, the divorce of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, David Lynch, Pornography, Tom Cruise, Kevin Costner, Mississippi Burning, Disney, Fatal Attraction, Steve Martin, Platoon, The Hidden Treasure Trove, Sigourney Weaver, Molly Ringwald, NBC, Nastassja Kinski, the new idea of beauty, On Golden Pond, Nicholas Nickleby, and TV's Dallas.

Spielberg at first wanted Lawrence Kasdan to flesh out his Watch the Skies treatment into a fully fledged script, but Kasdan was too busy writing Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, so Spielberg turned to John Sayles ( who had written Joe Dante's Roger Corman-produced Jaws spoof Piranha, which Spielberg had loved ).

After acquiring the property, Freedman met with director Steven Spielberg for advice on how to make the project into an important documentary film.

It was labeled one of the finest war films ever made and earned Spielberg his second Academy Award for direction, and Hanks another Best Actor nomination.

The gang also made frequent cameos in the 1990 spinoff series Tiny Toon Adventures, from executive producer Steven Spielberg where they played teachers and mentors to a younger generation of cartoon characters ( Buster, Babs and the gang ), plus occasional cameos in the later Warner shows Animaniacs ( also from Spielberg ) and Histeria!

Spielberg acknowledged that it made him "... feel very old, too old to direct it.

Spielberg enjoyed working with the children, and he later said that the experience made him feel ready to be a father.

Spielberg answered that he did not intend the film to be a religious parable, joking, " If I ever went to my mother and said, ' Mom, I've made this movie that's a Christian parable ,' what do you think she'd say?

Spielberg decided " a film that depended on state of the art technology couldn't be made for $ 2. 5 million.

Spielberg stated that no film he has ever made since has been as hard to edit as the last 25 minutes of Close Encounters and he and Kahn would go through thousands of feet of footage just to find the right shots for the end sequence.

In a 2005 interview, Spielberg stated that he made Close Encounters when he did not have children, and if he were making it today, he would never have had Neary leave his family and go on the mother ship.

" I didn ’ t know if the 1981 print would stand up to a full IMAX transfer, so I came expecting a sort of grainy, muddy, and overly enlarged representation of the movie I had made years ago ," Spielberg said.

Spielberg left the show after one year as a producer, having made one critical decision with lasting effects: the Carol Hathaway character, who died at the end of the original pilot episode script, was retained.

Steven Spielberg has said he was paying a " very slight homage " to Play Time in his 2004 film The Terminal, adding, " I thought of two directors when I made Terminal.

A long trial now began, conducted with all the rigour and secrecy of the Austrian procedure, and Confalonieri, outwitted by the astute examining magistrate, A Salvotti ( d. 1866 ), contradicted himself, made fatal admissions, even compromised others, and together with several companions was condemned to death for high treason, but through the intercession of his wife and father, who went to Vienna to plead his cause in person, the emperor Francis commuted the penalty to perpetual imprisonment in the fortress of Spielberg ( January 1824 ).

In the early 1990s, McCoy was attached in the role of Governor Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl when Steven Spielberg was planning on directing, but Disney did not give permission for the film to be made.

Director Steven Spielberg described him as an " incredibly talented visionary ," and " one of our great filmmakers, not just for the art and passion he put on screen, but for the impact he has made on the conscience of the world.

The rivalry might have been a friendly one, as Spielberg makes a cameo appearance in Blues Brothers ( as the unnamed desk clerk near the very end ) and Landis had made a cameo in 1941 as a messenger.

Because Bakshi did not have a lawyer, he sought advice from directors he had become friends with, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg, asking them how much they made on their films.

Dr. Hynek was also the consultant to Columbia Pictures and Steven Spielberg on the popular 1977 UFO movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and made a brief, non-speaking appearance in the film ( after the aliens disembark from the ' mother ship ' at the end of the film, he can be seen, bearded and with pipe in mouth, stepping forward to view the spectacle ).

* In the 2002 Steven Spielberg film Catch Me If You Can, Carl Hanratty shows Frank Abagnale a forged check, which he says was made with " a stencil machine and an Underwood ".

Reviewing the film for New York Times, Leslie Bennetts called it " a lighthearted murder mystery that weds Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the kind of rollicking action-adventure that has made Steven Spielberg the most successful movie maker in the world ".

Dan Finnerty with his The Dan Band has made legendary comedy rock appearances in the Todd Phillips films Old School and The Hangover spoofing " Total Eclipse of the Heart " and " Candy Shop ", as well as his cult hit live show, which parodies female cover songs and was filmed as a one hour TV special directed by McG and executive produced by Steven Spielberg.

He also made guest appearances on such TV shows as Knots Landing, Growing Pains, Amazing Stories ( in a special hour-long episode directed by Steven Spielberg ), and Airwolf.