Steven Spielberg

I got the idea in Poltergeist when I produced and had co-written Poltergeist.

I wrote the story.

I wrote the screenplay.

I wanted Jo Beth Williams, the character, to kind of...

weightlessly fly around a room.

We built an entire bedroom, put it on the same kind of vertical carousel, and we just started revolving it.

And Jo Beth just had to go like Gene Kelly did in Royal Wedding when he danced on the walls and the floor and the ceiling.

Jo Beth just had to understand what down was, where up was and where down was, so she could struggle and traverse the entire room from the wall to the ceiling to the wall back to the floor again, which is exactly how Stanley,

also got the guys jogging in the ship.

Right.

With the Caceterian music playing when they were jogging all around for exercise.

I'd like to think that Stanley said that because that's exactly what the movie doesn't mean, what Stanley never intended and he's throwing the world off.

See, I love that.

So he can keep, he can keep the truth

A little more contained.

I think he's playing a little chess with us.

Oh, he was a great chess player.

Matter of fact, you know, the best gift I ever gave Stanley for his birthday was the first computer chess game.

Ooh.

Because Stanley, I played chess and Stanley played chess.