Steven Spielberg

I'm more impatient.

Stanley was prolific.

I was impatient.

I just love telling stories.

If I get a story and it gets into my bananas, I just have to tell the story.

I got to get it out.

I got to exercise it.

No, I've spent three years between two projects and I went a little nuts.

But the great thing about that, I went a little bit nuts not directing, but I was raising a family and that was keeping me completely preoccupied.

So it was okay.

I met him on the set of The Shining in 1980 when they had just finished dressing the big Overlook Hotel set.

grand room with the double staircase and the fireplace and the table with the typewriter on it.

That's where I first met him.

No, what happened was I was about to make Raiders of the Lost Ark and I was going to build the Well of the Souls on the same set.

that he had already built the Overlook Hotel.

And I was scheduled to move, when he struck his set, when he was done shooting with it, we were going to build our set.

And so I was going to scout the set anyway, but Stanley happened to be there doing his still photographs.

And he had a camera with a periscope lens, and he had a tabletop model of the set that he was actually standing in when I first met him.

And Douglas Twitty, our production manager, brought me over at Stanley's.

I asked to meet Stanley, and Stanley said, yeah, he'd meet me.