Steven Spielberg

And then you're on a journey

with those characters.

And if you trust the characters and you bond or imprint on them or bond with them close enough, you trust them.

And trusting a character allows you to trust the ride they're taking or the adventure they're on or the problems they have to solve or the survival that it means life or death.

And then you can be so compelled to attach yourself to a personality in your movie that that should take you right to the end.

I would like to tell you because you're making me think of this.

My dad used to be a screenwriter.

He used to teach film and he has taught your movies in class.

And one of the things he taught was the first 10 minutes of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Specifically for the reasons you're mentioning.

Just the idea that the world is very clear and the dynamics between these characters are very clear.

The father-son dynamic specifically.

Was that the goal there, was to just lay out, here's everything you're going to get from this movie in the first 10 minutes?

Which, by the way, you do in other films.

I feel like your opening sequence often establishes so much of what will bring us along for that ride.

That was very personal.

That was maybe the most personal Indiana Jones film for me in terms of plot structure.

The most personal Indiana Jones film for me was Temple of Doom because I met Kate.

And that is Kate Capshaw, of course, the actress.

Yes.