" Spielberg rejected the Schrader / Hill script during post-production on Jaws.

This idea was used by Steven Spielberg for his science fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which features the lost Flight 19 aircrews as alien abductees.

Spielberg — who visited the set a few times — also advised Mendes not to worry about costs if he had a " great idea " toward the end of a long working day.

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 — who was later awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award — had the idea of making Indiana a Boy Scout.

Lucas's initial idea for Indiana's sidekick was a virginal young princess, but Huyck, Katz and Spielberg disliked the idea.

Spielberg reflected, " George's idea was to start the movie with a musical number.

Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Interactive, which just started in that time, needed fresh and unusual projects, and TenNapel approached Spielberg with the idea of claymation game, with Spielberg accepting it for publication.

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.

The 1987 science fiction movie, * batteries not included was originally intended to be featured in Amazing Stories, but Steven Spielberg liked the idea so much that he decided to make it a theatrical release.

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.

McKeown suggested to Cathie Ryan and Robin Spielberg the idea of recording an album of songs relating to motherhood, resulting in The Mother Album ( 1999 ).

* 1986: The idea of a Back to the Future simulator ride is brought up during a meeting between Steven Spielberg and Peter N. Alexander on the eve of the debut of the Hollywood Studio Tour's King Kong Encounter.

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas appear on the show, and when the boys mention changing Raiders of the Lost Ark, the two directors quickly decide this is a great idea.

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.

Steven Spielberg conceived the idea after Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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.

'" While on the set of Raiders, Spielberg read the Night Skies script to Melissa Mathison ( who was there to see her then-boyfriend and future husband Harrison Ford ) and she cried after hearing it because " the idea of an alien creature who was benevolent, tender, emotional and sweet ... and the idea of the creature's striking up a relationship with a child who came from a broken home was very affecting ".

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.

Location scouting commenced in Africa but Spielberg and Lucas abandoned Monkey King because of its negative depiction of African natives, and because the script was unrealistic.

It included the prologue that was eventually filmed ; Lucas had to convince Spielberg to show Indiana as a boy because of the mixed response to Empire of the Sun, which was about a young boy.

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 had originally offered the role to Roman Polanski, who was intrigued at the opportunity to work with Spielberg but decided to turn down the role because he wouldn't be able to make the trip to Tunisia .< ref >

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.

The project was set aside because of delays on 1941, but the concept of making a small autobiographical film about childhood would stay with Spielberg.

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

In her book You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, producer Julia Phillips wrote highly profane remarks about Spielberg, Zsigmond, and Truffaut, because she was fired during post-production due to a cocaine addiction.

That decision was requested by Spielberg because he felt " girls move more gracefully than boys.

Spielberg lobbied to have Dennis Weaver in the starring role because he admired Weaver's work in Orson Welles ' Touch of Evil.

Spielberg has said that this is because he feels there is a " kinship " between Duel and Jaws, as they are both " about these leviathans targeting everyman.

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

After deciding to executive produce the film, Spielberg chose Dante as his director because of his experience with horror-comedy ; Dante had previously directed The Howling ( 1981 ), however, in the time between The Howling and the offer to film Gremlins, he had experienced a lull in his career.

Spielberg urged the casting of the relatively unknown Zach Galligan as Billy because he saw chemistry between Galligan and Cates during auditions.

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.

Lucas wrote a film treatment that included a haunted castle in Scotland, but Spielberg felt it was too similar to Poltergeist.

The play also influenced the 1982 Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper film Poltergeist.

From his association with Steven Spielberg, Grais co-wrote Poltergeist.

Although Night Skies as a film would never reach production status, it helped inspire not only E. T., but also Poltergeist ( which had a family terrorized by paranormal forces and Spielberg hired Tobe Hooper to direct ), Spielberg and Mathison's proposed E. T.

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.

Velociraptor are well known for their role as vicious and cunning killers in the 1990 novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton and its 1993 film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, in which they served as the main antagonists.

Schindler's story, retold by Holocaust survivor Poldek Pfefferberg, was the basis for Thomas Keneally's book Schindler's Ark ( the novel was published in America as Schindler's List ), which was adapted into the 1993 movie Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg.

* The Terminal, a 2004 film by Steven Spielberg, in which a man is trapped in an airport terminal

Hanks is also known for his collaboration with film director Steven Spielberg on Saving Private Ryan and the mini-series Band of Brothers, which launched Hanks also as a successful director, producer and writer.

She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieślowski on the set of Three Colors: Blue ( 1993 ), a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César.

* In the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can, directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the real story of Frank Abagnale, a con man who stole over $ 2. 5 million through forgery, imposture and other frauds, which are dramatized in the film.

Spielberg and Scorsese also helped in the 1989 restoration of Lawrence of Arabia which, when released, greatly revived Lean's reputation.

" During 1978, Spielberg announced he would shoot a film entitled Growing Up, which he would film in 28 days.

and Me in eight weeks, which Spielberg considered perfect.

Columbia Pictures, which had been producing Night Skies, met Spielberg to discuss the script.

Ed Verreaux created a $ 700, 000 prototype for E. T., which Spielberg deemed useless.

is tolerance, which would be central to future Spielberg films such as Schindler's List.

" Spielberg and Lucas attributed the film's tone, which was darker than Raiders of the Lost Ark, to their personal moods following the breakups of their relationships ( Spielberg with Amy Irving, Lucas with Marcia ).

Austin Powers in Goldmember begins with an action film opening, which turns out to be a sequence being filmed by Steven Spielberg.

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.