I think there has never ever been a career like John Williams’. That whole ‘Jaws’ phenomenon – there’s nobody that knows how to use music like Spielberg, and John is just the perfect analog to Spielberg.
I’m just glad I got to work with the likes of Spielberg.
‘Ready Player One’ is an actor’s dream, so – I mean, to work with Spielberg is – everything.
Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them – maybe that’s what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
Spielberg shoots with one camera. The Coens, and I think this is right, maybe discarded one shot on ‘No Country for Old Men.’ That’s something you want to aspire to, because nothing’s out of place. Everything’s necessary.
There really isn’t a dream role, but there’s a dream situation where I could work with a director that I idolize. So, the idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.
But I’m more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg’s my main influence.
Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses. In that, there is something very totalitarian.
When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, ‘Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?’ You just say yes.
By the time May rolls around, I’m probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say ‘Hey, there’s this role, are you interested?’ I’d be there in a flash.
My big break down here was working with Steven Spielberg in ‘1941.’ It was a very small role, as Corporal Foley, who was part of the tank crew with Dan Aykroyd.
I don’t think many people can say they’ve been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.
When ‘The Pacific’ came around, I had to audition the old-fashioned way. It was the casting director and then the producer and then another producer and another producer and then Spielberg and Hanks.
Steven Spielberg is a talented, wonderful filmmaker.
I think Spielberg is a master. I think ‘Jaws’ invented a genre.
I grew up on Spielberg and Lucas. That was sort of what inspired me to make movies.
I knew I wanted to be the Steven Spielberg of dance.
I was lucky enough to work a little bit with Steven Spielberg.
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