Spielberg
- TV-MA
- Year:
- 2017
- 147 min
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Steven Spielberg:
when I was a young kid,
but I remember the time
I almost gave up my dream
I must have been 16.
Spielberg:
A movie came into town
called "Lawrence of Arabia,"
and everybody
I never sat in a fancy
theater seat before.
Premium ticket price,
70mm projection,
stereophonic sound.
And when
the film was over,
I wanted to not be
a director anymore
because the bar
was too high.
There was a scene
where he looked at himself
in that sword/knife,
when he was first
given the robes
and he thought
he was alone.
And he walked
around laughing
and looking at his shadow
where the diaphanous robe
he was holding out
was actually imprinted
- on the sand in shadow.
- ( laughs )
It was a great moment.
And then later,
when they route
the retreating Turks,
you see him again
covered in gore.
And he's got the knife
in the same position
he had it
in his pristine days,
in his glory days.
And he's looking at himself,
who he's become.
It was the first time,
seeing a movie,
I realized that
there are themes that aren't
narrative story themes.
There are themes
that are character themes,
that are personal themes.
That David Lean
created a portraiture,
surrounded the portrait
with a mural
of scope
and epic action,
but at the heart and core
of "Lawrence of Arabia"
is "Who am I"?
- ( gunfire )
- ( all yelling )
Spielberg:
I had such a profound reaction
to the filmmaking,
and I went back
and saw the film
a week later.
I saw the film
a week after that.
And I saw the film
a week after that.
And I realized that
there was no going back,
that this was going to be
what I was gonna do
or I was gonna
die trying.
But this was going to be
the rest of my life.
( explosion )
( roaring )
( distant explosions )
And then trying to get--
it felt lined up.
- Man:
The camerajust gotta go right.
- Just a little bit lower.
That's good right there.
That's perfect.
Yeah, camera has to go
right a bit, please.
Go right.
- Right, right, right, right.
- Man:
Can you get there?Right there
would be good.
Spielberg:
Every time I start
a new scene, I'm nervous.
And it's like
going to school,
having to take a test.
spoken before.
I don't know
what I'm gonna think
of hearing the lines,
I don't know what
I'm gonna tell the actors,
I don't know where
I'm gonna put the camera.
it's the same.
But I tell you,
it's the greatest feeling
in the world.
I'll tell you
why it's a good feeling.
The more
I'm feeling confident
and secure
about something,
the less
I'm gonna put out.
The more I'm feeling,
"Uh-oh, this could be
a major problem
in getting
the story told,"
I'm gonna work overtime
to meet the challenge
and get the job done.
All right, that's done.
I don't know if it's worth it.
Spielberg:
And so, I hate the feeling
of being nervous,
but I need to feel
in this moment
I'm really not sure
what I'm doing.
And when that verges on panic,
I get great ideas.
The more I feel
backed into a corner,
the more rewarding
it becomes
when I figure my way out
of the corner.
I love it.
Next shot.
Good.
( yelling )
- Did you see that?
- Yes.
( screams )
Martin Scorsese:
I remember when Steven
was in production on "Jaws,"
the word around town
and in the "LA Times"
was that it was folly
and that it was gonna be
a disaster.
Richard Dreyfuss:
"Jaws" started filming
on May 2nd.
I was hired,
I think, on May 3rd,
and they had no shark,
no script, and no cast
when they first started,
so...
The script
was never locked.
We were
rewriting the script
12 hours
before we were shooting
what we just wrote.
You know, it's scary
for a director to not know
if he's gonna be able
to hand pages to his cast
the next morning.
Man:
Guys, we can't shoot
right now.
- Hold on.
- Man #2:
Hold on.Spielberg:
This is my second day
at sea
and I have
54 more days to go.
And if I survive this,
I'll have learned a lot,
because right now all I can
tell you is
it's twice as slow
shooting at sea as it is
shooting on land.
Bill Butler:
Well, the studiohad never shot a film
on the ocean before.
They would do it
on the back lake.
They would do it
in a studio tank.
They would make
miniature boats.
They would--
everything would be so easy
that you would never
get cold or wet.
But Steven said,
"I'm gonna shoot
in the open ocean."
Roll sound.
Spielberg:
This was supposed
to be a thriller
based on people
like you and me that are
out of our element
we have no comprehension
how to deal with.
That needs a level
of authenticity
in the back lot
at Universal
in North Hollywood
would not give it.
So, to me,
there was no going back.
It had to be shot
in the ocean.
Spielberg:
I thought it was
gonna be a cakewalk,
but I didn't know anything
about tides or currents.
I didn't know
about how the wind
affects the water,
how the color of the sky
changes the color
of the water,
or how you can't get
anything to match.
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