Spielberg Page #13

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weapons, faces,

and then right to Bob.

- Get in there!

- Spielberg:
"Jurassic Park"

is a cautionary tale.

We stand on the shoulders

of giants

to create

the next great thing,

and yet we take

no responsibility

for our own creations.

But it's an old, timeworn

science fiction story.

It's what brought Godzilla

up from the depths.

You mess

with atomic energy,

you get Godzilla.

Rick Carter:

There's a lot of dark themes

in "Jurassic Park"

that are about, you know,

unleashing Pandora's box.

As it turns out, it's not

only genetic engineering,

which is a theme

in the movie,

it's actually

the digital revolution

coming out right

from behind the fence.

- ( growling )

- ( thunder crashing )

( roaring )

Muren:
This opened up

a whole new world

in storytelling

because you can do

anything you want.

You're not limited

by plastics or metal

or gravity

or anything.

If you can imagine it,

you can do it.

It was the end of an era,

no question about it.

And it was the beginning

of a whole nother era.

- ( music playing )

- ( chittering )

Muren:
Steven is a master

of putting the effects shots in

for a purpose.

They're there

to advance the story

and to make it

a different journey

than anybody's

seen before.

And it could be

a spaceship,

it could be a dinosaur,

it could be an alien landing,

it could be,

you know, a red coat

that somebody's wearing

when they're running through

a black-and-white movie.

- Put the camera down.

- Parkes:
It's part

of the emotional landscape

of the story he's telling.

I've never seen

a single moment

in a Spielberg movie

in which you feel

that the technology

is crushing the story.

And that's really hard.

I mean, these moments,

which have to feel

spontaneous and real

on-screen...

There are

200 people around,

and half of it is being

created six months later

and half of it

was six months before.

Koepp:

When he made

"Jurassic Park,"

there was no guarantee

that it would work.

That could easily

have been a disaster.

But it was the right ratio

of excitement and fear

for Steven.

Doing a movie

has to scare you

a little bit.

Otherwise,

you're not pushing it.

"Schindler's List,"

which seems--

clearly, that should have

been a movie now--

was a three-hour

black-and-white movie

about the Holocaust.

In the halls of Universal,

that was-- that was crazy.

That was not--

who green lights

that movie, you know?

It was as big a risk

as CG dinosaurs.

Bigger.

You're saying

"All my credibility

as a fantasy filmmaker--

I'm gonna risk all that

on CG dinosaurs.

And all my credibility

as an artist,

I'm gonna put

on the line, too.

And I'm gonna do it all

over the course of 12 months.

Fingers crossed."

They seem obvious now.

They were by no means

guarantees.

And that must have been

a really terrifying period,

because you really are

pushing all your chips

into the middle of the table

at that point.

Of course, it turned out

very well for Steven,

giving him

one of the strangest

and most astoundingly

successful years of any

film director, ever.

The Brain:

This is my greatest

technological masterpiece--

the Schpiel-Borg 2000.

I spared no expense.

Your play pal, Pinky,

is actually

an extremely advanced

cybernetic clone

of one of Hollywood's

most powerful figures.

And if his box office numbers

are any indication,

he has the potential

to become ruler of the world.

Steven is the best-known

director in the world, easily.

( thumps )

- Listen.

- What?

( thunder crashes )

( both screaming )

Steven, you've made

so many films.

When are you

gonna do the big one?

( laughing ) Wow.

What do you mean "big one?"

Something that clicks

with the public.

"Something that clicks

with the public."

( reporters clamoring )

The guy's

an unmistakable force

in the business

of making movies.

Running a company,

being an executive producer,

being a producer,

and being a director.

Robert Zemeckis:

For a filmmaker, you can't

have a better producer

than one of the greatest

directors in the world.

He really nurtures

young talent coming up.

It's a pretty amazing

roster.

He's also a major figure

in the television business.

He started a restaurant.

Dive!

Submarine sandwiches.

The man was, like, doing

27 things at once

and being perfectly

unselfconscious about it.

How many hats

does that man wear?

It's impossible.

Parkes:

He once told me,

"When I'm at a buffet,

I like to have

too much food

on my plate."

( music playing )

Holly Hunter:

He will be in production

on a movie,

doing preproduction

for another movie,

and editing yet a third.

He's got a lot

of different channels.

You know, me,

I have a list.

You know,

"change light bulbs,"

and that's on there

for a week.

No, he gets

a lot accomplished.

Tom Brokaw:

Three of Hollywood's richest,

most powerful boy wonders

teamed up today to create

a movie studio,

Hollywood's first

major new independent studio

in almost half a century.

Geffen:

I don't think Steven

really fears anything.

He's always ready to go

and do something new.

Jeffrey Katzenberg:

No one can consume

information,

be in so many places

so effortlessly.

It used to make me crazy

if a screenplay came in,

that, you know,

we were all waiting for,

no matter what,

I could never get home

and get it read

before him.

Dustin Hoffman:

To be that talented,

to be that successful

almost in a mythological way,

your jaw drops.

Many times

you see the person

incorporating their success

into their personality.

There's a sense

of self-importance.

And it's the opposite

with Steven.

Steven's like a guy who works

for Steven Spielberg.

- ( water splashing )

- ( children laughing )

- ( Spielberg vocalizing

"Jaws" theme )

- Girl:
Shark!

Spielberg:

A day of pure bliss,

for me,

is a day where

I'm with my family.

I've got my eyes closed,

they're swimming in the pool,

- and I just

listen to their voices.

- Spielberg:
One more time.

That's great, Theo.

That was the best one.

Spielberg:

I never knew I was going

to have a big family.

That took me

completely by surprise.

Kate never thought she'd have

a big family either.

So, the natural evolution

in our life was a gift.

- ( girl yelps )

- Spielberg:
Jessica

is my oldest,

and then Max,

and then Theo after that,

and then Sasha,

and then Sawyer,

and then Mikaela,

and then Destry.

- Woman:
Whoo-hoo!

- ( squeals )

Spielberg:

Kate is a force

in my life.

There's such an honesty

about her

and an awareness

of the world.

And I think

the authenticity

of the kinds of movies

I began to make

after Katie and I

got together

had to do with bringing

a kind of truth into my life

where truth began

to upstage make-believe.

Spielberg:

Okay, turn the camera on.

- Roll.

- Man:
Okay, do it.

Marker.

Spielberg:

You know, I've turned down

a lot of very successful

movie franchises

that 10 years before I would've

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