Spielberg did not storyboard the sequence, as he wanted spontaneous reactions and for " the action to inspire me as to where to put the camera ".

To achieve a tone and quality that was true to the story as well as reflected the period in which it is set, Spielberg once again collaborated with cinematographer Janusz Kamiński, saying, " Early on, we both knew that we did not want this to look like a Technicolor extravaganza about World War II, but more like color newsreel footage from the 1940s, which is very desaturated and low-tech.

Spielberg did not care for the Grail idea, which he found too esoteric, even after Lucas suggested giving it healing powers and the ability to grant immortality.

Spielberg used doves for the seagulls that Henry scares into striking the German plane because the real gulls used in the first take did not fly.

Spielberg suggested casting Ford as Jones, but Lucas objected, stating that he did not want Ford to become his " Bobby De Niro " or " that guy I put in all my movies ", a reference to Martin Scorsese, who often worked with Robert De Niro.

The project was filmed under the cover name A Boy's Life, as Spielberg did not want anyone to discover and plagiarize the plot.

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?

had bothered Spielberg since 1982, as he did not have enough time to perfect the animatronics.

Spielberg did not add the scene featuring Harrison Ford, feeling that would reshape the film too drastically.

Bakshi did not have a lawyer, so he sought advice from fellow directors with whom he had become friendly, including Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and Steven Spielberg.

Warshaw and other Atari executives presented this design to Spielberg, who did not express enthusiasm.

Spielberg did not want to do any location shooting because of his negative experience on Jaws and wanted to shoot Close Encounters entirely on sound stages, but eventually dropped the idea.

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.

When Eisner did not appoint Walt Disney Studios chief Jeffrey Katzenberg to Wells ' now-available post, Katzenberg resigned and formed DreamWorks SKG with partners Steven Spielberg and David Geffen.

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.

In the Archive of American Television website, Spielberg is quoted in an interview given by Weaver as proudly saying: " You know, I watch that movie at least twice a year to remember what I did ".

The Valiant's red color was also intentional ; Spielberg did not care what kind of car was used in the film, but wanted it to be a red car to enable the vehicle to stand out in the wide shots of the desert highway.

Shortly afterward, Spielberg set up the project at his studio DreamWorks, though he did not pursue direction of the film due to his full slate.

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.

Brown said that Spielberg did not want to direct the sequel because he felt that he had done the " definitive shark movie ".

In response to this and to similar complaints about Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Steven Spielberg suggested that the Motion Picture Association of America ( MPAA ) alter its rating system, which it did within two months of the film's release.

" Spielberg conceded and told Loomis to license the Star Wars property, made by his friend George Lucas, instead, which Loomis later did.

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.

Always is a remake of the 1943 romantic drama A Guy Named Joe although Spielberg did not treat the film as a direct homage to the earlier World War II melodrama.

In defense of the film's portrait of warfare, filmmaker Brian De Palma commented, " The level of violence in something like Saving Private Ryan makes sense because Spielberg is trying to show something about the brutality of what happened.

Spielberg wanted Donovan's death shown in one shot, so it would not look like an actor having makeup applied between takes.

In discussing the mixed critical reception of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Steven Spielberg said, " I sympathize with people who didn't like the MacGuffin ( the crystal skull ) because I never liked the MacGuffin.

In his book There and Back Again, Sean Astin claims that Richard Donner and Steven Spielberg were " like codirectors " on the film as he compares and contrasts their styles when directing scenes.

Phillips has remained busy in both stage and television productions, along with character roles in films like Empire of the Sun ( 1987 ) directed by Steven Spielberg and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ( 2001 ).

The process for IMAX theaters, like with the complete restoration, was supervised by Steven Spielberg and sound designer Ben Burtt.

This amazing stop-motion sequence, never since equaled by a single individual, took over four months to complete, and helped to inspire an entire generation of subsequent filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Tim Burton, Sam Raimi and James Cameron, among many others.

Along with the announcement, he presented a lengthy comedy skit on what his last day with Microsoft would be like, complete with cameos from celebrities including Jay-Z, Steven Spielberg, Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and many others.

As Hollywood began to produce bigger blockbuster films and invest more money in marketing them, directors like Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone and Barbra Streisand began to depend on Kuehn and Kaleidoscope for their ability to create the best trailers theater-goers could see.

" The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn became the first film Kahn edited digitally using Avid for Spielberg though he has edited digitally before for projects like Twister.

Kaye played the bass tracks on several of the Monkees hits, did soundtrack work ( including sound effects on bass guitar ) for a young Steven Spielberg and tracks for Quincy Jones whose 2001 autobiography Q noted, "... women like ... Fender bass player Carol Kaye ... could do anything and leave men in the dust.

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas originally wanted the film to have no dialogue, like The Rite of Spring sequence in Fantasia, but the idea was abandoned in favor of using voice actors in order to make it appealing to children.

Spielberg in particular was certain that Big Wednesday was going to be a box office hit, opining it was like " American Graffiti meets Jaws ", two of the decade's most successful films.

Film Laureate of Blogcritics considered " Because of You " and " Where is Your Heart " as his two favorite songs from Breakaway, writing " commands these two songs like a seasoned pro and directs herself in her songs the way Steven Spielberg said Barbra Streisand directs herself in her songs as if she's directing an actor in a movie.

People like Barbra Streisand, Mick Jagger, Phil Collins, Robert Redford, Muhammad Ali, Quincy Jones, Andy Warhol, Henry Kissinger, Steven Spielberg, etc.

Spielberg managed admirably to stage this scene with that dimension.

Spielberg originally had planned the chase to be a short sequence shot over two days, but he drew up storyboards to make the scene an action-packed centerpiece.

During post-production, Spielberg decided to cut a scene featuring Harrison Ford as the headmaster at Elliott's school.

The chase sequence was also created, and Spielberg also suggested having the scene where E. T.

According to Spielberg, the memorable scene where E. T.

Spielberg admitted this scene triggered speculation as to whether the film was a spiritual parable.

Spielberg became more sensitive about the scene where gun-wielding federal agents threaten Elliott and his escaping friends and had the guns digitally replaced with walkie-talkies.

Spielberg liked his personality, so he and Ford improvised the scene where Short Round accuses Indiana of cheating during a card game.

In the film The Adventures of Tintin which is directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson, there is a brief scene where Captain Haddock mistakes Snowy for a " Rat Monkey from Sumatra ".

Spielberg offered to take the crying scene out of the movie, but McQueen demurred, saying that it was the best scene in the whole script.

She was picked by Steven Spielberg to sing " God Bless America " in A. I., although the scene was edited out of the final version of the film.

Goldsmith also appears in the film ( as does Steven Spielberg ), in the scene where Rand calls home from the salesman's convention.

Amon Göth's house in Płaszów ( 2008 ); Despite the Hollywood implications drawn from Steven Spielberg | Spielberg's film set ( constructed in Liban Quarry a short distance away from Płaszów ) and from the film scene in Schindler's List, Amon Göth could not shoot from this balcony, because his villa sits at the foot of a steep hill.

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.

During post-production, Spielberg decided to cut a scene featuring Harrison Ford as the headmaster at Elliott's school.

' Once, hearing the phone ring at home while in the shower, he took a call from Steven Spielberg on the set of Schindler's List, agonising over a scene in Steven Zaillians script.