Publication details of books frequently quoted, and mentioned here only by title, may be found in the select bibliography.
‘Two blood-letting years’ is from interview with John Gallagher in Grand Illusions magazine Winter 1977 and ‘I lost my sense of judgement’ from American Cinematographer Spring 1990. ‘I started out by asking myself’, together with details of the sandcastle built by SS and Lucas, appears in Newsweek 15 June 1981.
‘The universe is stranger’. What J. B. S. Haldane actually said was, ‘My suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we know: it is queerer than we can know:’ Damon Knight’s essay on Ray Bradbury, ‘When I was in Kneepants, appears in A Sense of Wonder. Jules Feiffer’s cartoon is in the Village Voice 27 January 1987. ‘He has all the defects’ is from Outrageous Conduct. ‘There is no, “Nice try, guys”’ quoted in the Sun 17 May 1989. ‘I got the feeling’ from author’s conversation with Julian Glover, London, 1995. ‘Steven Spielberg in his Adventures on Earth’ appears in the American edition of Premiere magazine July 1982. ‘It’s a nice place’ comes from Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness. Martin Amis quotes ‘Some people look at the ground’ in The Moronic Inferno. John Badham on Lucas is from Red Power. Keneally on SS is from the Australian National Times 29 July 1983. ‘Ronald Reagan was the strong father’ is from ‘The Last Crusade’ in Seeing Through Movies. Arthur Schlesinger on John Kennedy is from the New Yorker 5 June 1995. Geffen on SS is in You’ll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again. ‘He lacked social graces’ is quoted in Outrageous Conduct. ‘Directing is 80 per cent communication’ is in Reel Power.
This chapter draws on Spielberg interviews in UK Penthouse Vol. 13, No. 3, 1978 with Herbert Margolis and Craig Modderno, with Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger in inter/view June 1982 and with Diane K. Shah in the Los Angeles Times 19 December 1993. Other details are from Icons. Ralph Rosenbaum is quoted from When the Shooting Stops, with Robert Karen, Viking, New York, 1979. ‘I did begin by reading comics’ quoted by Sheila Johnston, Independent, 23 March 1988. David Denby quoted from the Australian 2–3 August 1986. ‘I don’t like reading’ is from an interview with David Breskin in Rolling Stone September 1985. David Halberstam from The Fifties. ‘Have you ceased to exist yet?’ is in Outrageous Conduct. SS’s reminiscences on ‘God Lights’, TV ‘snow’, his fear of the dark, his shadow games and habit of staring at mirrors appear frequently in interviews. Most of these references are from Icons. SS described his high school theatrical experiences in American Film September 1978 and the meteor shower in numerous interviews, including Penthouse 1978. Leah Spielberg described SS terrorising his sisters in People magazine 20 July 1981. The description of seeing The Greatest Show on Earth is also often retold. In this case, it comes from inter/view June 1982. SS on goodbyes is from his interview with Michael Ventura, Los Angeles Weekly 11–17 June, 1982. ‘I was hysterical’ and ‘He wasn’t a good student’ come from Arizona magazine 3 April 1983. SS on losing a footrace appears, among other places, in an interview with Michael Sragow in Rolling Stone 22 July 1982. ‘I began wanting to make people happy’ is from the New Yorker 21 March 1994. Dreyfuss on SS and suburbia is quoted in The Movie Brats. The quotes on Norman Rockwell are by Alan Rusbridger and Ugo Volli from the Guardian 11 December 1993. ‘Some kids got involved in the Little League’ is from interview with Mitch Tuchman, Film Comment January/February/1978. Leah Adler’s ‘My earliest recollection’ and the story of burning the cardboard carton are from Hollywood Reporter 10 March 1994. ‘Father chopping wood’ is from New York Post 28 June 1975. ‘My first film’ is from the New Yorker 21 March 1994. ‘But I knew I couldn’t afford 16mm processing’ is from interview with Steve Poster in American Cinematographer February 1978. SS on the experience of screening movies is from Gene Siskel’s interview in The Future of Movies by Gene Siskel and Robert Ebert (Andrews&McMeel, New York, 1991).
William Manchester’s remarks on anti-Semitism are from The Glory and the Dream. ‘I felt I was qualified’ is quoted by David Hay in Sydney Morning Herald Magazine 22 January 1994. Other details of SS’s experience of anti-Semitism in Saratoga appear in the Melbourne Sunday Age 6 February 1994. ‘Storefront kosher’ is from Icons. Charles Moore commented on Los Angeles in Los Angeles: The City Observed. Merrill Shindler on the Dive! restaurants is from Los Angeles Reader 21 October 1994. ‘Affirmative action’ quoted in the New Yorker 17 January 1994. USC as ‘a citadel of privilege’ is from ‘The Man Behind the Mask’ by Teresa Carpenter in the American edition of Esquire November 1994. Paul Rosenfield on Hollywood is from The Club Rules. ‘Bounced by the best’ and other details of SS’s early days in Hollywood from Time 23 June 1975. Spielberg’s comments about avoiding the draft are from Time Out 10 November 1978. The first report on Spielberg’s age was in the Los Angeles Times 8 March 1981. The second, including Marvin Levy’s comments, appeared in the same paper on 24 October 1995. The account of being helped by John Cassavettes is from Los Angeles Weekly 11–17 June 1982. ‘One day in 1969’ and ‘I never made any deals’ are from Hollywood Reporter 13 April 1971. SS’s account of Amblin’s preview is in City of San Francisco 2 December 1975.
William Link is quoted in The Club Rules. Ray Bradbury on film studios appears in A Graveyard for Lunatics (Knopf, New York, 1990). ‘I couldn’t work outside Universal’ is from The Steven Speilberg Story. SS on Joan Crawford and the problems of making Eyes come from Icons, People magazine 20 July 1981 and Joan Crawford by Bob Thomas (Simon&Schuster, New York, 1978). SS on Robbins and Barwood is from Filmakers’ Newsletter Summer 1974. John Gregory Dunne describes Richard Zanuck in The Studio (Farrar, Straus&Giroux, New York, 1969). Zanuck on his first impressions of SS from interview in Cinema Papers March-April 1976. ‘A folly, a novelty item’ is from Time Out 10 November 1978. ‘Taking Marcus Welby seriously’ is from Millimetre March 1975. SS on Jerrold Freedman is from interview with Mitch Tuchman, Film Comment January/February 1978. ‘It’s very very hard’ is from interview with Diane Jacobs Millimetre November 1977.
‘We’re old now, but when we were the New Hollywood’ is from a 1995 BBC Omnibus profile of John Milius. The International Film Guide report appeared in the 1971 edition (Tantivy Press, London). ‘In those times’ is from an unpublished interview with Michael Pye on BBC TV. Joan Didion’s comments passim come from ‘In Hollywood’, reprinted in The White Album (Simon&Schuster, New York, 1979). Gavin Millar’s conversation is from an unpublished BBC TV interview. Quotes from Barry Diller passim are from Joyce Haber’s column in Los Angeles Times Calendar 13 July 1975. ‘I come from a family of beautiful women’ and ‘printed circuitry’ are from interview with Jerry Tallmer, New York Post 28 June 1975. ‘It begins on Sunday’ is from Time Out 10 November 1978. ‘I never mock suburbia’ is quoted in Time 31 May 1982. George Lucas on SS is from Hollywood Reporter 10 March 1994. Tom Milne’s review is from Sight and Sound Winter 1972/3. The Fellini lunch story is told in Cue 12 December 1974. Mal Karman’s interview is in City of San Francisco 2 December 1975. SS to Iain Johnstone is from an unpublished BBC TV interview. Darrl Zanuck’s recital of obscenities and Stephen Silverman on marketing blockbusters are in The Fox that Got Away.
Most technical details about the making of Sugarland Express are taken from SS’s interview with Andrew C. Bobrow in Filmakers’ Newsletter Summer 1974 (herinafter Newsletter). All quotes from Jerry Goldsmith, Emily Richard, Julian Glover, Tom Stoppard and Paul Freeman are from conversations with the author, London, 1995. SS’s comments on sex and film-making passim are from the 1978 UK Penthouse interview and ‘Steven Spielberg from Jaws to Paws’ in inter/view May 1977. All Julia Phillips’s quotes are from You’ll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again except ‘We are equally intimate’, which is from an interview with Larry Salvato in Millimetre September 1976. Aljean Harmetz on Alan Ladd Jr is from Rolling Breaks. Joey Walsh on writing Slide is from Robert Altman: Jumping off the Cliff. George Lucas’s ‘We are the pigs’ is quoted in Saturday Review June 1981. Coppola’s behaviour at the preview of American Graffiti has been much described. This version is based in part on Dale Pollock’s in Skywalking. Joe Dante’s remarks from an interview with the author, Hollywood 1989. ‘The great gamblers are dead’ is from an interview with Michael Ventura in Los Angeles Weekly 11–17 June 1982. Paul Schrader’s ‘That whole summer’ is from Esquire July 1982. Martin Amis passim quoted from The Moronic Inferno. ‘Relationships’ is from Michael Ventura’s interview (see above). ‘Crying on a shoulder pad’ is from Rolling Stone 22 July 1982. SS’s Texas psychic encounter is described in Icons. SS on Victoria Principal is from The Club Rules. Details of how Sugarland was storyboarded appear in Newsletter (see above). Richard Zanuck on SS is from the New Yorker 21 March 1994. Interview with Wayne Knight by Bill Warren. SS on William Atherton from Newsletter (see above). Michael Sacks on Ben Johnson from Boston Globs 9 April 1974. ‘We stole it’ is from BBC TV Omnibus profile of Milius 1994. John Gregory Dunne quote from Esquire July 1982. Pauline Kael’s review is in the New Yorker 18 March 1974. SS on the affinities with Ace in the Hole and on Vilmos Zsigmond in Newsletter (see above). Summer 1974. Goldie Hawn on location shooting is from San Francisco Examiner Chronicle 7 April 1974. SS’s discovery of Jaws is part of the mythology. ‘I really found my faith’ and SS’s comments on Welles’s War of the Worlds are from interview with Gail Heathwood in Cinema Papers April-June 1978. Schrader on negotiations with SS from Schrader on Schrader. ‘I guess if I had Sugarland to do over’ is from Grand Illusions magazine Winter 1977. Goldie Hawn’s judgement of Sugarland is quoted by Peter Haining in Goldie (W. H. Allen, London, 1985). Richard Zanuck on the ad campaign is from Filmmakers on Filmmaking, edited by Joseph McBride (American Film Institute, Los Angeles, 1983). ‘Wasn’t there anything for the director?’ is in Marquee magazine July/August 1982. ‘We were aghast’ is from Filmmakers on Filmmaking). Newsweek’s review appears in the issue of 8 April 1974. Billy Wilder on SS is from Joyce Haber’s column in Los Angeles Times Calendar 13 July 1975. ‘People thought’ is from an interview with John Moran in Cinema Papers July-August 1975. Joey Walsh on ‘Slide’ is from Robert Altman: Jumping off the Cliff.
SS’s comments on Jaws are from his 15 March 1978 London National Film Theatre appearance. ‘The book has a little Peyton Place’, ‘Carl Gottlieb and I’, ‘emasculating and cuckolding the sheriff’ and ‘the only likeable character was the shark’ are from Monte Stettin’s interview with SS in Millimetre magazine March 1975. ‘I only have good memories’ is from an interview with John Gallagher in Grand Illusions magazine Winter 1977. Ron and Valerie Taylor’s attempts to shoot shark footage with Carl Rizzo described in SS’s 1978 London NFT lecture. Richard Zanuck’s comments about Jaws only making $31 million are quoted by SS in an interview with Barbara Paskin in the London Film Review February 1976. ‘I like people who bring very little baggage’ is from The Club Rules. ‘No one crafts better deals’ is from Los Angeles Times Magazine 19 December 1993. ‘He’s as close an actor’ is from interview with Mitch Tuchman Film Comment Jan/Feb 1978. Dreyfuss’s description of his religious background is from The Jewish Image in American Film. Dirk Bogarde on Robert Shaw is from Snakes and Ladders (Triad/Panther, London, 1978). Robert Shaw’s criticism of the Jaws script is from Time 23 June 1975. Other details from The Price of Success. Gottlieb’s comments passim from The Jaws Log. Other details from The Making of the Movie Jaws. Peter Benchley’s tirade against SS is from the Los Angeles Times Calendar 7 July 1974. Roy Scheider on boats interrupting the shoot is quoted by Rex Reed from the New York Sunday News 15 June 1975. The union problems of Jaws are reported in Variety 10 July 1974 under the headline ‘U’s Jaws at Martha’s Vineyard Snarled in IATSE Electioneering’. The Teamsters’ threat to close the production down reported in Woman’s Wear Daily 17 July 1974. Henry Hathaway’s advice is from an unpublished interview for BBC Radio’s Conversation Piece series, c.1989. Joe Dante’s remarks from conversation with the author, Hollywood, 1989. Roy Scheider’s criticism of the press is from Rex Reed’s column, Sunday news 15 June 1975. Dreyfuss as ‘a major energy output’ is from Millimetre magazine November 1977. SS on Robert Mattey is in City of San Francisco magazine 2 December 1975. David Brown on reactions to Jaws from Let me Entertain You. There are many descriptions of the food fight at the Harbor View. This is from Joyce Haber’s column in Los Angeles Times 11 September 1979. Action’s report on the making of Jaws is in the issue of July/August 1974. L. M. Kit Carson’s account of being ejected from the set is in Oui magazine December 1974. ‘Isn’t there any more?’ is from Time 31 May 1982. Diane Jacobs’s comment is from Hollywood Renaissance. Pauline Kael reviewed Jaws in the New Yorker 8 November 1976.
Quotes throughout from Julia Phillips are from You’ll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again except for her comments on ancillary deals, from interview with Howard Maxford in Starburst Special Issue No. 9, 1991. The opening Chuck Jones quote is from Chuck Amuck. ‘Making a sequel to anything’ is from Variety 21 October 1975. Cohen on Bingo Long is from American Film July 1976. Sheinberg’s ‘I want to be the first to predict’ is from Joyce Haber’s column in Los Angeles Times Calendar 13 July 1975. SS on the Jaws backlash is from Newsweek 21 November 1977. Paul Schrader on SS’s reaction to Jaws is in Cinefantastique Summer 1978. SS on Scorsese is from his introduction to Martin Scorsese: A Journey by Mary Pat Kelly (Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1991). The account of Belushi’s behaviour is from Wired. SS on Scorsese in from Martin Scorsese: A Journey. Dreyfuss on SS as scriptwriter is from American Film November 1977. Irving’s remarks about her sexual experience appear in Today 3 April 1987. Martin Amis comments on SS’s beard in The Moronic Inferno. ‘All I can tell you’ is from an interview with Monte Stettin in Millimetre magazine March 1975. Paul Schrader’s remarks are from Schrader on Schrader. James Monaco on the script of CE3K is from American Film Now. Truffaut to Serge Rousseau is in Letters. ‘In order to be a story-teller’ was quoted by SS in the Cèsar ceremony, Paris, 1995. Bob Balaban’s ‘I spent nine months’ is from New York Times 2 April 1995. Jeff Walker talked to Bill Warren, Los Angeles, April 1995.
SS on the Begelman case is from Variety 22 February 1978. Quotes and descriptions of events leading up to the Close Encounters previews and premiere are from Indecent Exposure. Bill Warren on the CE3K previews from conversation with the author, Paris, October 1995. Michael J. Arlen’s ‘The Tyranny of the Visual’ is reprinted in The Camera Age: Essays on Television. Alan Hirschfield on CE3K is from Indecent Exposure. Account of SS in London is from interview with Adrian Turner, 1994. ‘Amy and I must have been together’ is from People magazine 20 July 1981. Amy living’s ‘People who know you’ from Movie Star magazine May 1981. Schrader’s ‘into a kind of Zen garden’ is from Cinefantistique Summer 1978. Accounts of the conflict with Columbia over the ‘Special Edition’ of CE3K from Variety 24 October 1979. Interview with Barbara Paskin is in London Film Review February 1976. SS on Belushi is from Film Comment May/June 1982. Descriptions of Belushi’s casting in and behaviour on the set of 1941 are from Wired. ‘As tasteful an experience as reading Mad magazine’ is from New York Times 9 December 1979. John Brosnan on Raiders is from Starburst Vol. 4 No. 1. ‘Almost as innovative’ is from Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Remarks by Julia Phillips and Dawn Steel are from You’ll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again and They Can Kill You but They Can’t Eat You. Michael Eisner’s ‘We’re supposed to be creative people’ and ‘We built in serious penalties’ is from ‘A Deal to Remember’ by Ben Stein in New West February 1981. Kathleen Kennedy on SS’s office is from Wired. Jeff Walker spoke to Bill Warren, Los Angeles, April 1995. ‘I’ll spend the rest of my life disowning this movie’ is from New York Times 9 December 1979.
All quotes from Joe Dante, Emily Richard, Paul Freeman, Bill Hootkins, Gordon Stainforth and Sir David Puttnam are from interviews with the author, Los Angeles 1989 and London 1994. The negotiations about Continental Divide are described in Wired. ‘I can make this film for $2.5 million’ and the description of seeing Don Window of the Navy are from Film Comment May/June 1982. Amy Irving on her feelings for SS and ‘I know he’s an incredible film-maker’ are from Los Angeles Times 13 March 1979. ‘The press loves to design its own failures’ and ‘earned the right to spend someone else’s money’ are from Saturday Review June 1981. ‘I learned not to invite Universal and Columbia executives’ is from Variety 24 October 1979. ‘I thought I was immune to failure’ is from Time 31 May 1982. ‘I’ll be pregnant by April’ and ‘Life has caught up with me’ are from interview with Leo Janos Cosmopolitan June 1980. The report on Columbia’s production plans, including quotes from John Vietch and Frank Price, appears in Variety 21 April 1980. SS on Kathleen Carey is from Time 31 May 1982. Frank Marshall on working with Bogdanovich is in Starburst September 1982. Jeff Walker talked to Bill Warren, April 1995. Philip Noyce on Harrison Ford is from Sydney Morning Herald 20 August 1994. ‘I got it right down to the bones’ is from Marquee magazine July/August 1982. SS’s encounter with Karen Allen is documented in Rolling Stone 25 June 1981.
Quotes from Jerry Goldsmith are from conversation with the author, London, 1995. ‘E.T. made me yearn’ is from American Cinematographer Spring 1990. Details of Begelman’s conviction and exoneration appear in Indecent Exposure. ‘They’re scared of little pictures’ is from Variety 30 May 1980. ‘A deal is a work of science fiction’ is from Time 31 May 1982. ‘A sense of poised dynamism’ is from Final Cut. Interview with Thelma Moss in New York Post 2 June 1982. All quotes by and about Steve Ross and those of Terry Semel appear in Master of the Game. ‘I couldn’t write alone’ is from interview with Michael Ventura Los Angeles Weekly 11–17 July 1982. ‘My revenge on TV’ is from Time 31 May 1982. Anthony Goldschmidt on the poster design is from New York Times 20 April 1984. Martin Amis on ET is from The Moronic Inferno. SS at Cannes reported in Variety 20 April 1983. ET’s ‘plucking your heartstrings’ is from BBCl report on the film’s release.
‘They’ve hired Kathleen Carey!’ is from Master of the Game, as are SS’s remarks about Steve Ross and Charles Paul’s account of the E.T. videogame deal. ‘I think Kathleen and I will have kids’ is from People magazine 23 August 1982. ‘Machiavellian risks’ is from New York Times 10 June 1981. Brian Gibson recounts his experience with The Tourist in the BBC TV series Naked Hollywood 1994. ‘His Annie Hall’ is from Film Comment May/June 1982. Dee Wallace’s comments on secrecy on the set of E.T. is from People magazine 21 December 1981 and on her alleged blacklisting from Outrageous Conduct. J. G. Ballard’s comment about The House on Haunted Hill is from a conversation with the author 5 August 1994. Wesley Strick on Cape Fear is from Martin Scorsese: A Journey. The account of the genesis of Joe Dante’s and George Miller’s episodes for The Twilight Zone is taken from conversations with Joe Dante in 1990 and further discussions between Dante and Bill Warren in 1995, and with Richard Matheson. The negotiations for SS to join Disney were reported by Marilyn Beck in the New York Daily News 28 June 1982. Other information is from Storming the Magic Kingdom. Joe Dante and Bill Warren supplied details of the production of Landis’s episode of The Twilight Zone. Carol Serling’s ‘Rod’s stories were about people’ is from The Twilight Zone Companion. Much of the background and many of the quotes in the section on the aftermath of the disaster and SS’s reaction are from Outrageous Conduct. The conversation between SS and John Landis is part of an unpublished interview with Landis by Bill Warren. SS’s ‘I think people are standing up much more’ is from his interview with Dale Pollock, Los Angeles Times 13 April 1983. ‘Without Joe, it would never have been finished,’ is from a conversation with Jerry Goldsmith, London, 29 January 1995. ‘I was charmed’ appears in from The Twilight Zone Companion. Details of SS’s residency at the St James’s Club were supplied by its manager Michael Lucas in a conversation of January 1995. Paul Rosenfield is quoted from The Club Rules. ‘Steven has surrounded himself’ is from Outrageous Conduct. Amblin ‘a very dysfunctional place’ is from Los Angeles Times, reprinted in the Guardian 22 March 1994.
All quotes from David Yip, Joe Dante, Mick Garris, Julian Glover and Jerry Goldsmith in this chapter are from conversations with the author, except Dante’s remarks about Innerspace, which appear in Hillier’s The New Hollywood, and ‘I know which side my bread’s buttered on,’ from New York magazine 24 March 1986. Quotes from SS about Steve Ross are mostly from Master of the Game, ‘like a children’s crusade’ is from Film Comment May/June 1982. Jack Mathews on SS’s corporate colleagues is quoted by Kirk Honeycutt in ‘The Art of the Deal’ in Hollywood Reporter 10 March 1994. SS on Michael Jackson’s house is from Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness. ‘We really want to do’ is from inter/view June 1982. Dawn Steel’s account of the ShoWest incident is from They Can Kill You but They Can’t Eat You, as are details of her career and quotes about Jeffrey Katzenberg. Details of the press and trade reaction to the rejection of E.T. are taken from Inside Oscar: The Unofficial Story of the Academy Awards. Details of Amy living’s reconciliation with SS and their life together thereafter are from McCalls June 1985, Ladies Home Journal March 1989, US October 3 1988, People magazine 27 March 1978 and 7 August 1989, and Los Angeles Times 17 April 1984. Peter Bart’s comment on the Amblin headquarters is from Final Cut, ‘an architectural fantasy’ from ‘Steven Spielberg in Black and White’ by David Hay (Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend 22 January 1994). SS on his relationship with Universal is from Los Angeles Times Magazine 19 December 1993. David Brown’s comments appear in Let Me Entertain You. Steven Schiff’s review appears in Vanity Fair September 1984. The report on SS and Lucas at Mann’s Chinese Theater is from Los Angeles Reader 25 May 1984.
All quotations from J. G. Ballard, Tom Stoppard and Mick Garris from interviews with the author as previously cited. David Denby on studio heads in the Australian 2–3 August 1986. ‘Steve never talked Warner Brothers business’ is from Master of the Game. Thomas Keneally quotes ‘It’s kinda thick’ and describes the lunch with Sheinberg and Pfefferberg in the Australian National Times 29 July 1983. SS’s remark by David Hay is in Sydney Morning Herald Magazine 22 January 1994. ‘Scared I couldn’t’ is from Los Angeles Times Magazine 19 December 1993. Gordon Parks’s quotes from Stills magazine October 1985. SS on the ‘executive producer’ credit is from Millimetre magazine July 1982. Peter Bart’s remarks from Final Cut. ‘I made a bet with myself’ is from New York Times 29 December 1990. ‘Spielberg Defers’ is from Variety 20 April 1983. River Phoenix’s story from Independent on Sunday Magazine 5 December 1993. ‘I’m totally unambitious’ is from Los Angeles Times 14 April 1985. ‘I’ve been having these persistent dreams’ is from Icons. ‘I had my Peter and Wendy’ is from interview with George Perry in Sunday Times Magazine 15 June 1986.
All quotes in this chapter from J. G. Ballard, Tom Stoppard and David Yip from interviews with the author. Details and quotes about the campaign to deny SS an Oscar are from Jack Kroll’s report in Newsweek 17 February 1986. Thomas Keneally’s ‘He told myself is from the Melbourne Age Weekend Review 26 September 1984. Phil Joanou is in Hollywood Reporter 10 March 1994. Irving’s ‘I started my career’ is from People magazine 3 April 1989. ‘It was no fun to go over there’ is from the New Yorker 21 March 1994. ‘If Steven Spielberg is your friend’ is from Business Week 29 May 1989. Amy Irving’s ‘I tended to lose out’ is in Today 21 August 1987. Elaine DeKooning’s reminiscences are in Elaine and Bill: Portrait of a Marriage. ‘I was talking about the future’ is from American Film June 1988. ‘There are certain people’ is from Steven Spielberg. The Man, the Movies and their Meaning. Christopher Hampton on Nostromo quoted in David Lean by Kevin Brownlow (Richard Cohen, London, 1996).
All qutoes from Julian Glover, Kevork Malikyan and Bill Hotkins are from interviews with the author, previously cited. Lawrence Kasdan on the Grail legend is from ‘Kasdan on Kasdan’ in Projections 3 (Faber&Faber, London, 1994). Anne Spielberg on SS as negotiator is from the New Yorker 21 March 1994. The profit figures of famous films were cited by Francois Velde in a letter to the New York Times 4 June 1995. SS’s conversation with Andrew Lloyd Webber reported in the Guardian 25 January 1991. SS on cancelling Peter Pan is from interview with Sheila Johnston, Independent 23 March 1988. SS on his hopes for an Oscar quoted in Inside Oscar. SS’s plans for Elstree were reported in the Daily Mail 1 July 1988 and elsewhere. Both quotes about Sony’s purchase of Columbia and SS’s comments are in the New Yorker 28 February 1994. Paul Rosenfield on Irving is from The Club Rules. ‘Kate spent months’ appears in Today 25 September 1989.
Tom Pollock on SS is quoted in Business Week 29 May 1989. SS on Holly Hunter is quoted in Today 25 September 1989. ‘Wading in corn’ is from Independent on Sunday 23 May 1993. James Agee’s comments on A Guy Named Joe are reprinted in Agee on Film (McDowell Obolensky, NY, 1959.) Details of SS’s involvement with The Bonfire of the Vanities are in The Devil’s Candy. ‘It’s about a brother and sister’ quoted by Gene Siskel in The Future of Movies. ‘I’m seventy-four years old’ and SS’s negotations on Schindler’s List detailed in Boston Globe 12 December 1993. Keneally’s remarks on SS’s adaptation of Schindler’s List appear in Sydney Morning Herald 16 November 1985. Details of the Cape Fear project, including Wesley Strick’s remarks, are in Martin Scorsese: A Journey. Fred Schepisi’s ‘You’ll fuck it up’ is quoted in the Melbourne Age Weekend Review 3–4 April 1993. Details of Guber and Peters management of Sony come from James B. Stewart’s article ‘Sony’s Bad Dream’ in the New Yorker 28 February 1994. An account of the MCA sale to Matsushita and Jonathan Sheinberg’s involvement appears in the New Yorker 17 January 1994. News of the purchase of the Hughes factory and DreamWorks’ plans for the site is in Screen International, 5–11 January 1996.
All quotes from Tom Stoppard are from interview with the author. Most details of Steve Ross’s last months are taken from Master of the Game. Kim Newman on Jurassic Park is from Sight and Sound August 1993. SS on his political beliefs is from Rolling Stone September 1985. Material and quotes about Liam Neeson, including those of Neil Jordan and John Lahr, taken from New York Times Magazine 4 December 1994 and Sydney Morning Herald 4 February 1995. ‘A hodgepodge of animals’ appears in ‘Designing Dinosaurs: How to Bring Jurassic Park to Life’ by Don Lessem, Omni. July 1993. Many technical details are about the planning of Jurassic Park are from The Making of Jurassic Park. The attitude to children in Jurassic Park is interestingly discussed by William Paul in Laughing, Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy (Columbia University Press, NY, 1994). ‘We had Bob Daly and Terry Semel as hobos’ is in Master of the Game. Thomas Keneally’s comparison of Schindler’s List and Lawrence of Arabia is from Sydney Morning Herald 8 February 1994. The problems of shooting at Auschwitz were reported by the Guardian 29 November 1993. Liam Neeson was interviewed for the Paris Free Voice by Lisa Nesselson June 1994. Scorsese and Spielberg’s statements on the GATT talks reported in Variety 8 November 1993 Bertrand Tavernier’s remarks from an interview with the author, Paris, 1995. Reviews of Schindler’s List were summarised in the Melbourne Age Weekend Review 5–6 February 1994. Daniele Heymann’s review quoted in Paris Free Voice June 1994.
‘I have no idea what to do next’ and account of SS’s visit to the Consumer Electronics Show are from the New Yorker 21 March 1994. SS on Dive! restaurants from CNN report 29 August 1995. Account of the Matsushita meetings with Wasserman and Sheinberg from Los Angeles Times Magazine 21 May 1995. The potential sale of MCA and its relationship with Matsushita was detailed in Los Angeles Times 3 April 1994. Details of the formation of DreamWorks SKG were assembled from too many sources in the trade and general press to detail, though much information, including that on the initial telephone conversations between SS and Katzenberg, and Zemeckis’s comment, as well as the White House phone call to Geffen came from ‘A Hollywood Recipe: Vision, Wealth, Ego’ in the New York Times 16 October 1994. Other quotes and facts came from the Los Angeles Times Business Pages, in particular the issues of 13 October (‘Merger of the Moguls: Dream Team Trio Outline Plans for Studio’), 14 October 1994 (‘Hollywood Trio’s Options: Buy MCA or Build a Dream’), by Alan Citron, 21 October (‘Big News, But Where are the Big Plans?’) by Robert W. Welkos, 25 October, (‘Dream Team’s 1st Project: Mastering Spin Control’), 21 March 1995 (‘Paul Who? Dream Team’s New Benefactor’) and (‘Dream Team May Get New Player: Bill Gates’), both by Alan Citron and Claudia Eller, 23 March 1995, ‘A High-Tech Hollywood Alliance’ by various writers. ‘When I was making the film in Poland’ and ‘If you want to find out where people slept’ from New York Times 10 November 1994. SS’s comments from the Cèsar telecast TF1 25 February 1995. Damon Knight’s quote (about Ray Bradbury) is from In Search of Wonder.