Spielberg Page #3

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Swim!

Come on, Charlie!

Dun-dun.

Dun-dun, dun-dun.

Dun-dun, dun-dun, dun-dun,

bom, bom, bom, bom, bom, bom.

Come on,

a little more, Charlie.

Attaboy.

Come here, Charlie.

Attaboy. Attaboy.

David Edelstein:

It is a perfect exercise

in suspense

with technique

that any other filmmaker

would kill for.

Spielberg:
I knew I was using

an electric cattle prod

on the audience

every time

there was some kind

of a pop-up surprise.

Michael Phillips:

Like Hitchcock, he knows

how to get you

on the edge of your seat.

He doesn't show you

what you want to see,

and then he delivers it

when he wants to deliver it.

- ( screams )

- J. Hoberman:
He certainly

likes torturing the audience.

Has he ever been

in analysis?

( thunder rumbling )

1, 1,000; 2, 1,000;

3, 1,000; 4, 1,000...

Spielberg:

Everything scared me

when I was a kid.

Everything.

- 1, 1,000;

2, 1,000;

3, one...

- ( thunder rumbling )

Spielberg:

I had a tree out my window

that was terrifying.

It was just terrifying.

1, 1,000; 2, 1,000...

Spielberg:

I was filled

with so much fear

that I needed

to exorcise some of that.

And what better audience

to exorcise myself

of my demons

than my three sisters.

( music playing )

He would lock us

in the closet with a skull,

which he had dripped

different colors of wax

all over.

It almost looked

like blood.

I'd blindfold them

one at a time,

bring them

into the closet.

I'd put my whole body weight

against the door.

They'd take

their blindfold off,

and I would just sit there

listening to them screaming.

I mean, telling

this story now...

I still think

it was pretty cool.

I was gonna say,

"I hate myself for that."

I don't hate

myself for that.

It was fun.

At first,

he just scared us.

But through his movies,

he gets to scare the sh*t

out of everybody now.

( screams )

- ( screaming )

- Dan Rather:

The blockbuster movie

of the summer,

of course, is "Jaws,"

a tale of a murderous

white shark on the loose.

And that movie's release

was well timed

for maximum impact

during the vacation season,

and some people

who have seen it

are now seeing phantom sharks

every time they go

near the water.

Scorsese:

I remember the night

"Jaws" opened.

I was with Steven.

He said, "Let's go

and see the lines."

And we were looking, going by

all the lines in Westwood

and places like that,

and I said, "This is it.

This is gonna be

a major change."

Janet Maslin:

I was with him in the car

and he was really,

really nervous but excited.

And the car

went around the corner,

and there was the line

went around the corner,

and then the car kept going,

and the line kept going.

And he was

absolutely beside himself.

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