Steven Spielberg

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Fresh Air · Steven Spielberg · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

But the imagery was amazing.

But then along came this horrible train crash.

And the train wreck was terrifying.

And I wanted to leave the theater like you did with

you know, with 20,000 leagues, and I was knocking on my parents' shoulders.

I was sinking as low as I could get in my seat so as not to see the screen, but it was a really terrifying, traumatic thing, and it never left me.

My first movie was a movie that scared my pants off, and I'll never forget that.

Well, you know, I don't know, because remember, I'm a kid, and I think that when I saw that movie for the first time and I had a Lionel electric train set, and by actually crashing the train into things and watching the train derail and watching the passenger cars and a couple of box cars and a caboose pile up, I was able to, I think intuitively,

rest back control of my fear.

And I really think it helped assuage the fear.

It helped me get in total control over it.

So I was the one causing something that was going to maybe have a chance to scare other people, but no longer myself.

And the idea of taking my dad's little Kodak Brownie eight millimeter movie camera and filming it

was only because I kept wrecking the trains, crashing them into things, and my dad and mom threatened to take the train set away, so the idea of using a camera to film it, then I could watch the film over and over again, and it would essentially...

you know, it would calm me down.

Everything.

There was nothing that didn't scare me.

I was afraid of everything.

I was afraid of this horrible, New Jersey, this horrible, scary, naked tree out the window that looked like it had tentacles, you know, and these horrible branches.

And it looked like arms and long fingers and long fingernails and

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