Steven Spielberg On The 'Jaws' Shark | The Dick Cavett Show

Steven Spielberg tells Dick how a malfunctioning shark in Jaws held-up production.
Date aired - July 1st 1981 - Steven Spielberg
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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[@Ozziemick]

I personally loved the mechanical shark more better than the real footage. mechanical one was so scary for me that i came back again to watch it several times. The mechanical shark named Bruce won my heart.

[@bhunt799]

It’s so weird seeing Speilberg without a beard.

[@paulmc3457]

The Quint sliding down the deck right into the sharks mouth is cinematic gold 🎉

[@CannibalWHORE22]

Steven Spielberg. Love or hate him deserves respect for his contributions to cinema. He is an amazing filmmaker

[@Stevemaloy]

why would anyone hate him?

[@seattlegolfer]

No one hates Spielberg, dumbass.

[@CannibalWHORE22]

@@Stevemaloy Don’t read too deep into it. I was just saying like it or not basically. Not saying anyone actually hates the guy

[@kalevipoeg6916]

Hate him? Why? The man brought us Jaws, ET, Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park. What kind of a miserable excuse for a human being could hate that? ;)

[@sallybrown4947]

I don'y know a single soul on the planet who doesn't love him and his films. Jaws, Close encounters, Raiders of the lost Ark, etc etc,!

[@jjrj8568]

'70s Spielberg was pure raw talent; I'd put Duel, Jaws and Close Encounters on the same level (and perhaps higher, in terms of artistic merit) as Raiders, ET and JP

[@rocknroller77]

Definitely!

[@xyz8655]

Good old Australia and their cheeky sharks.

[@sogi676]

His voice is the exact same! LOL

[@Hunter87788]

Steven Spielberg though it was worth it though because ended up directing my favorite film... Thank you so much Spielberg..

[@neaituppi7306]

I actually saw the movie when I was a kid, when it came out, I was probably around 8. It was rated that if you were with an adult, you could get in. I had no idea then, that it was filmed very near the area I lived in, which was maybe for the best. But it was so intense to see something like that, at that age. I unfortunately closed my eyes when the head came out of the hole in the boat. Because of my imagination, I then had nightmares about it for 3 years after, of what the head looked like. When I saw the movie again, it was nowhere near as bad as I thought it was.

[@drewwinslow2105]

The irony that young Spielberg resembled Dave Duchovny and later became interested in directing films about extraterrestrials.

[@chiefscheider]

This was just before he became Steven Spielberg Inc.

[@chiefscheider]

If you say so. It wasn’t until ET went through the roof that every other film seemed to have “Steven Spielberg Presents” above the title 😁

[@xtraflo]

@@chiefscheider After ET and Raiders - Spielberg became a household name.

[@dukecraig2402]

@@xtraflo You're both wrong, it was Close Encounters that put him on the map, then 1941 put him in question but Raiders then launched him into the stratosphere, curiously Jaws didn't really make him a household name as big as it was, but Close Encounters did, after that movie everyone knew who he was.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

White Noise No, Jaws made Spielberg a household name.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Duke Craig No it was Jaws. Close Encounters was never the global blockbuster cultural phenomenon that Jaws was.

[@mrgrinch13]

It seems writers for the syfy network saw this interview and rand with Steven's ideas at the end.

[@johnwilburn]

His joke idea for Jaws 3 may have been better than what they actually did.

[@martinsorenson1055]

Jaws: 3, Audience: 0.

[@TELEVISIONARCHIVES]

Dad filmed them shooting the movie. Silent film but interesting just the same. Need to find the footage.

[@Thomasfan244]

ooo

[@gavinmasterson8202]

Amazing seeing Spielberg that young 😊

[@frankieboy8414]

Amazing how?

[@aimanman1268]

Very handsome when he was young.

[@southlondon86]

Was he?

[@Carousel5883]

Still is but here he wasn't handsome .only when he had beard ,moustaches ,longer hair look that started from Temple of Doom all the way to Jurassic Park he looked not handsome but sexy.I think it's a crime he never voted Sexiest Man Alive during that period.I have a superduper crush on him.He the last amazing legend from our childhood,MJ level!!! Gonna be sad when he no longer around

[@frankieboy8414]

You need to get out more.

[@KG-vr3te]

The none working shark made the movie, he had to film Dreyfuss, Shaw and Schnieder. I wish computer generated images failed as regularly so we can get movies back with human emotions , interacting with the watcher , leaving us with pure magic in hearts as we say goodbye to the cinema on a huge high. I haven't been since 2003, I can't watch modern movies, may as well just watch my brother on his play station.

[@chrislondo2683]

Imagine picturing Cavett interviewing Terrence Malick.

[@denisefreitas6727]

Great story. I love Dick's interviews. Spielberg was cute!

[@ryueldragonborn4145]

I appreciate the sheer amount of work that went into this movie from everyone involved but the irreparable damage it has done to sharks and our perception of them

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Sharks were already feared and hunted long before Jaws. Jaws hit a nerve because the fear was already there. It didn't invent it. Without Jaws we'd never have had the current scientific knowledge and understanding we have now. Jaws initiated a massive interest in sharks. Anyway its the Asian shark finning industry, commercial gill net and long line by-catch and the beach netting programme that have done the most to decimate shark populations. Not Jaws.

[@Three_Random_Words]

Not in the longer run, it certainly helped increase interest in sharks. Society is actually pretty complex that way, able to debate things and as long as things aren't politicized to death, then the truth wins out eventually.

[@DrCrabfingers]

A scruffy guy in a lumberjack's shirt and cap went into an antiques shop in Bath, England and asked the owner whether he had any Clarice Cliff....the owner looked this chap up and down and said "I'm sorry Sir, we don't serve your type in here"...and so the scruffy chap left and went into the nextdoor antiques shop...where he bought £30,000 worth of Clarice Cliff...yep, the scruffy chap was Steven Spielberg taking time out from filming Saving Private Ryan I think it was...true story!

[@terrystokes7893]

Looks like David Duchovny

[@hanswhite]

It was a crime that Spielberg didn't have a patent on directing future jaws movies.

[@daleravic]

He was thinking about directing Jaws 2 but turned it down to make Close Encounters.

[@mathematics5573]

he wanted nothing to do with the JAWS sequals. See the making of documentary, He suffered a lot during and at the end of the shoot

[@Gannooch]

I have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like all the other Dick Cavett interviews

[@markmarsh27]

There are SO many amazing stories about the making of this movie, ESPECIALLY about the tense relationship between Shaw and Dreyfuss. ... A "Making Of Jaws" drama could be AMAZING, but they would need a really TOUGH old bastard to play Shaw ... if Vinnie Jones can do a Scottish accent HE'S the man! .... Statham is just too small to play the hulking Robert Shaw.

[@paisleydunbar7218]

Well then, you should check out Ian Shaw and his play, The shark is broken.

[@hellodavey1902]

Youth!

[@welshpete12]

I remember when they were testing submarine designs they had a 2/3 size model . That they released from about 150 feet under water that shot to the surface . If they just wanted a shark come up and jump out of the water . Why did they do something like that ?

[@LegrochaTV]

Great story 😂

[@jmc32007]

I'd love to see the out takes of the mechanical shark

[@neaituppi7306]

He wasn't that far off, on how ridiculous Jaws 3 ended up being.

[@maddymud]

David Duchovny can play Spielberg

[@annmarieknapp]

I heard they named the shark, "Bruce."

[@dukecraig2402]

Yes, Spielberg named it after his lawyer.

[@carlosalvaro2964]

He looks like the son of David Duchovny and John Ritter

[@freddiemartin699]

lol LandShark..............SNL!!!!!!!

[@michaelangellotti4773]

Candygram

[@Gannooch]

have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Art Carney or Jackie Gleason?

[@Gannooch]

How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities.

[@GeorgeGlass1975]

I'm glad the shark didn't work. He looks incredible in ever scene but for Quint's demise. Thank God for the barrels.

[@lisarae5630]

Swooners..!

[@marcryan1974]

Jaws 2 would have been much better had Hooper starred in it…

[@pillettadoinswartsh4974]

Steve, the beard was a good choice.

[@southlondon86]

Why?