Steven Spielberg

And so the scuttlebutt on campus was, this is trippy.

This is going to be like the trip.

This is going to be like a really trippy film.

So everybody was getting ready to get into a car and go down to, I believe it was the Pantages Theater to see the film.

So I think I saw the film probably the first week it opened.

And I went with three or four of my college friends.

We all piled into a car, drove into Hollywood.

And correct me if I'm wrong, it might have been the Pantages.

It might have been one of those big movie palaces in 1968.

But we parked, walked like nine blocks to get to the theater.

Got into a line because in those days there was no such thing as buying your tickets ahead of time.

And so we waited in line for a long time and everybody was being, I looked around, nobody was smoking grass because there were cops up and down Hollywood Boulevard.

But when I walked into that theater and people started filling it up, it was filled with smoke.

It was just filled with smoke.

Was that common?

I had never been to a movie where I smelled marijuana as thick as a London fog inside that movie palace.

But everybody was in the theater, a lot of guys, not as many women, more men, everybody with long hair.

Everybody making a lot of noise.

I thought I wouldn't be able to hear the dialogue.

First of all, I didn't realize, because the movie hadn't started yet, there was going to be very little dialogue.