Steven Spielberg
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first heard May 2026
last heard 3 Jul
Steven Spielberg’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The tree terrified me.
Later, as an adult, when I wrote Poltergeist, I created a tree out the window that actually comes to life and grabs a kid and starts to suck him into one of its knot holes, its sappy knot holes.
And that was a direct steal from that tree out my window that scared me.
I was afraid of the dark.
I was afraid of small places, and I still am today.
I'm very claustrophobic.
But I was a fearful kid.
And my parents didn't quite know what to do with that, because my mom was fearless, and my dad was extremely stoic about things like this.
And no amount of bedside chats could calm me down once the sun set.
I went to bed and my parents turned the lights off and the only solace I guess I had was they allowed the door to my bedroom to be cracked an inch or two.
So I had that little comfort of a hall light coming in and that was about it.
Well, you know, I was very much in those days when I was, you know, 12, 13, 14, being influenced by television.
And, you know, and there were a lot of movies on the late show.
You get the late show, you get the late, late show, you get things called Million Dollar Movie back in Phoenix.
And I was very influenced by all the war movies they were showing, the John Wayne films like The Fighting Seabees and other films like Bataan or Back to Bataan or Guadalcanal Diary or The Sands of Iwo Jima.
And coupled with the fact that my dad was
From the greatest generation, he was a veteran of World War II.
He fought in the China-Burma-India, the CBI campaign.
He was stationed in Karachi, sometimes in Burma.
He was in charge of all the planes that went off to bomb Japanese bridges.
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