Steven Spielberg

And then this huge ship comes in, which I think inspired George to do the first shot of Star Wars with that huge Imperial destroyer coming over the top of the screen.

Do you remember the scene where the shuttle that takes Haywood Floyd to Clavius, the shuttle, when it lands, it's on some kind of a huge, almost like a mono, it's like an elevator.

It's like an elevator.

And it starts coming down.

Now you see what it looks like.

And if you look very carefully...

For me, it looks like an Egyptian sculpture of an Egyptian head with the two eyes, which are the windows, the red window lights.

But the windows are spaced equally apart, and there's a flat nose in the center, and it looks like an Egyptian head.

And there's just something about the way you could anthropomorphize on what all of these designs remind us of.

of the ships and the shuttles they were using.

When I asked Stanley about what I thought was the Egyptian sculpture coming down, Stanley looked at me.

He didn't look at me.

We were on the phone.

And he said, is that what you think it looks like to you?

Wow.

Stanley sometimes answered questions with questions.

He was really interesting about that.

We had a kind of real interesting rapport.

This is how you guys are together.

Maybe somewhere on the East Coast.