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.

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 did not like the scene but, despite his creative control, he viewed Gremlins as Dante's project and allowed him to leave it in.

" 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.

Spielberg overruled this plot element as he felt Gizmo was cute and that audiences would want him to be present throughout the film.

Spielberg decided against pursuing the sequel, feeling it " would do nothing but rob the original of its virginity ".

Shortly after the film's release in late 1977, Spielberg desired to do either a sequel or prequel, before deciding against it.

Speaking with the Los Angeles Times, Screenwriter Kennedy noted that in " Jaws ," the shark was 25 feet long, so Harlin had to do Spielberg one better.

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.

Jaws was released with unanimous success, though by this time it was too late as Spielberg opted to do Close Encounters of the Third Kind instead.

Neither Bluth nor Spielberg were involved with any of the Land Before Time sequels ; Spielberg produced the 1991 sequel An American Tail: Fievel Goes West without Bluth.

With the financial and critical success of Jaws, Spielberg earned a vast amount of creative control from Columbia, including the right to make the film any way he wanted.

" and " Has Godard or any other director living or dead done more than Spielberg, with his Holocaust Project, to honor and preserve the memories of the survivors?

Steven Spielberg had previously filmed The Color Purple in Wadesboro, and the large white farmhouse used as an exterior location in that film became the production office for Evil Dead II.

Steven Spielberg filmed The Color Purple mostly in Lilesville, and a large white farmhouse ( the Huntley house, which is located in Lilesville, NC and is an old farmhouse located few miles off Highway 74 ) was used extensively as the main exterior location in that film.

Steven Spielberg filmed The Color Purple mostly in Lilesville, and a large white farmhouse ( the Huntley house, which is located in Lilesville, NC and is an old farmhouse located few miles off Highway 74 ) was used extensively as the main exterior location in that film.

Steven Spielberg filmed The Color Purple in Wadesboro, and a large white farmhouse ( the Huntley house in Lilesville, NC-also known as the James Bennett Plantation-located a few miles off Highway 74 ) was used extensively as the main exterior location in that film.

* Spielberg, Styria, a city in Styria, Austria ; known as the former location of the Austrian Grand Prix at the A1-Ring

" Jerry Belson and Spielberg wrote the shooting script together.

Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty McFly, but after five weeks of shooting scenes for the first film, director Robert Zemeckis and executive producer Steven Spielberg chose to re-cast the role to Fox.

The first time I did it, actually, was for Schindler's List where no-one is looking for snappy dialogue, but the writer of that movie had gone on to direct a picture and there was a little more work that Steven Spielberg wanted done before it went to Poland to begin shooting.

The film was scheduled to begin shooting after Spielberg returned from filming Raiders of the Lost Ark.