Then I filmed some fireworks exploding. My mum went crazy
when she saw it, but my dad thought it was really funny and
that was all the encouragement I needed. I finally got into the
film business in the 70s. Stanley Kubrick had amazed
everybody with his beautiful film 2001: A Space Odyssey and I
found myself working on a similar film for a young guy called
George Lucas. He kept talking about robots, or swords made
out of light, and superfast spaceships, and I kept saying, “Sure,
George, but how are we going to make it?” Well, in the end we
found a way and Star Wars was a massive blockbuster. We
made two more Star Wars films, and I had a great time working
on the Indiana Jones movies, but then along came Jurassic
Park in 1993 and that changed everything.