Steven Spielberg

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2,912 appearances 7 recordings 7 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3 Jul

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Fresh Air · Steven Spielberg · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

Well, first of all, you know, I sympathize with you.

I, too, saw 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with James Mason and Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre.

And that sequence with the giant squid attacking the Nautilus was terrifying, especially because they were cutting the tentacles off with axes.

And that was pretty gruesome in those days.

And I remember that.

But I was older when I saw that movie.

But I was only six years old when I saw it.

But my parents took me to The Greatest Show on Earth.

And they thought it was going to be a great picture having to do with circus clowns and three rings of entertainment.

And I actually thought they were saying to me, we're taking you to a circus.

Because I had never been there.

to a movie before we had television at home but i had never been to a motion picture and um and i thought what they meant to say was you're going to actually see giraffes and elephants and lions and tigers and what happened was we waited in line for hours in the freezing winter and then we walked into this big theater with all these seats facing forward and it was not a big top it wasn't a tent it was just a structure i just remember as a kid looking around and it was all these seats remember the color of the seats they were red

And the curtain was red.

And then suddenly this curtain opens, and this big, grainy image in color comes up on the screen.

And I felt very betrayed.

My first reaction was, you said you were taking me to a circus.

And this movie started playing.

And I don't know how long it took me to fall under the spell of the film.

And I was enchanted.

I remember just being enchanted by, didn't understand the story, didn't understand what they were saying.

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