It was the film that made him a big name - but Spielberg says he's unhappy with the way some people used it as a reason to target sharks.
"What I now know, which wasn't known when I wrote Jaws, is that there is no such thing as a rogue shark which develops a taste for human flesh," he said in an interview in 2000.
Spielberg, 75, counts Jaws among his biggest blockbusters along with the likes of Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park and ET.His latest semi-autobiographical film, The Fabelmans, is about a boy who aspires to be a film-maker in post-war America.He joked on Desert Island Discs that it was"$40m of therapy", adding:"I didn't know really what I was doing, except I was answering a need I had.
"Being an orphan, or recently orphaned by the loss of both parents, to recapture some of those memories in some way that wouldn't seem too indulgent to actors I really respected. So it was a tight rope for a while.""But there were times where it just it was out of my control."Set for release at the end of January, it stars Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen and Gabriel LaBelle.
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