Steven Spielberg Biography

- Spielberg jumped off a bus tour through Universal Studios and ran into a building on the lot. A worker overheard a conversation with a relative telling him how he really wanted to be a director and gave him a pass to come back the next day. After four days studio workers assumed Spielberg was an employee and let him stay until he could secure a real job.

- The noise you hear as the truck in `Duel’ goes over the edge of the cliff is a bootlegged copy of the sound of Godzilla, one of the films which scared Spielberg most.

- The mechanical shark in Jaws was nicknamed Bruce. Spielberg credits the mechanical breakdown of the shark to Jaws’ success in frightening the audience. He said he would have used it more blatantly and liberally had it actually worked throughout filming. Instead he uses innuendo and relies on the audience’s imagination in many scenes.