Spielberg explained when filming Jaws, " Dreyfuss talked me into casting him.

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

As Spielberg explained, " It's one of the most original things I've come across in many years, which is why I bought it.

Steven Spielberg used Unreal Tournament to test special effects while working on his 2001 film Artificial Intelligence: A. I.

Steven Spielberg said, " I learned more about acting from him at that early stage of my career than I had from anyone else.

When asked about this by American Cinematographer, Spielberg said, " I think that World War II is the most significant event of the last 100 years ; the fate of the Baby Boomers and even Generation X was linked to the outcome.

The Steven Spielberg films A. I.

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.

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.

" Spielberg denied this claim, stating, " I was a kid in high school when his script was circulating in Hollywood.

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?

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When George Lucas first approached Steven Spielberg for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spielberg recalled, " George said if I directed the first one then I would have to direct a trilogy.

I think Temple of Doom represents a chaotic period in both their and Spielberg lives, and the movie is very ugly and mean-spirited.

" After I showed the film to George, at an hour and 55 minutes, we looked at each other ," Spielberg remembered.

" Steven Spielberg said in 1989, " I wasn't happy with Temple of Doom at all.

" 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.

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.

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 ".

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 ".

When Spielberg decided he wanted it to move, the prop was sent to John Carl Buechler in Los Angeles, who resculpted it over three days to blink, snarl, snort and wiggle its ears.

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

Spielberg wanted Willie to be a complete contrast to Marion Ravenwood from Raiders of the Lost Ark, so Capshaw dyed her brown hair blonde for the part.

Spielberg originally wanted to bring Marion Ravenwood back, with Abner Ravenwood being considered as a possible character.

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.

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.

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 ).

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.

A new generation of filmmakers, the so-called " Easy Riders and Raging Bulls "— Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and others — were aware of the creative potential of sound and wanted to use it.

Universal's reluctance to give the project to Roach was also due to new interest from Steven Spielberg who wanted to direct and produce the film with Jim Carrey playing the role of Greg Focker.

During production, Spielberg confided that while making Jaws in 1974, he and Dreyfuss had traded quips from A Guy Named Joe, considered a " classic " war film, that they both wanted to remake.

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.

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

The executive called Roth the next week saying that Spielberg loved it and wanted to contact the filmmakers.

The three filmmakers, Lamb, Chris Strompolis, and Eric Zala ( a former Activision employee ), had not spoken to each other in years when Roth contacted them out of the blue, saying that Spielberg wanted to write them a letter.

Steven Spielberg has said that he initially found many of the characters unsympathetic and wanted the shark to win.

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.

Robert Downey Jr was in the mix for several months, but he wanted changes done to the script and Spielberg decided to pull the plug, feeling that the two were not on the same creative wavelength.

Steven Spielberg originally wanted to have a hand in producing the movie until the success of his film Jaws got his full attention.

Steven Spielberg came up with the idea for Night Skies in the late 1970s when Columbia Pictures wanted a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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 ).