Steven Spielberg

And that was a big hit.

And Cubby called me a few years after Close Encounters and said, we'd like to use the five notes in Moonraker.

And I said, I'll make you a deal.

I'll give you permission to use the five notes if you let me direct a Bond film.

And he said, nope.

But I gave him the five notes anyway.

So they consistently turned me down.

Why?

He never explained why he wasn't letting me in the Bond family.

But when I told that story to George Lucas in 1977, when we were in Hawaii together getting ready for the release of Star Wars, A New Hope,

We all went to Hawaii together to just relax and get on the phone and figure out how much money it made at the 10 o'clock shows all over America.

And when we found out that every single 10 o'clock AM show had been sold out, George was just a bullion, and Marcia, his wife, was a bullion.

We went back down to the beach, and I told my sad company broccoli story.

They wouldn't let me direct Bond.

And that's when George said, I have something better than Bond.

It's called...

Indiana Smith, which is what it was called at the time.

And he told me the premise of the Indiana Jones series, and that's how I got that job.

So if they ever asked me to make a Bond film now, my answer would be, you can't afford me.

Oh, no.