Steven Spielberg

But it didn't matter.

I was worried that there wasn't going to be room to hear the dialogue because everybody was making so much noise in the theater.

And then when the movie started, and Thus Spoke Tharstustra started, and it hits that tremendous chord,

It shut everybody the F up.

Everyone just got completely quiet.

So as the music was decaying after that big explosive chord, I was aware that everyone was still.

It was kind of in itself before the film started, mind-blowing.

And then what began, I think, for a lot of people in that theater was a religious experience.

fueled by whatever they were on.

For me, it was not so much a religious experience, but one of the most audacious films I had ever watched in my life.

The audacity, and of course we all knew Kubrick, and we all knew he was audacious, but the audacity and the risks he took telling that story

if you could even call it a story, set me back.

And I think, you know, just rocked my world for sure.

Rocked my cinema world.

Yeah, I got my contract to be a TV director at Universal the next year.

Correct.

Pretty good start.

I've seen them all.

Yeah, I did.

I didn't feel that way until after Stargate, which we'll get to.