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00:00To me, making Jaws was a life-altering experience.
00:06Fifty years, we're still talking about Jaws.
00:09It was the first blockbuster.
00:12This mystical connection between hero and monster.
00:16This started me thinking about a career in movies.
00:21Is there anything that you've never said about Jaws?
00:25I've got Jaws, Jaws, Jaws!
00:27Let's find out.
00:30We were on the real ocean, and we were way out of our element for five months.
00:34And we all began going off the deep end, literally.
00:37The film was 100 days behind schedule.
00:41And 80% of the time, the shark didn't work.
00:44There was a strong undercurrent that the studio would close us down.
00:48I was terrified I was going to be fired.
00:51But I never once felt like I wanted to quit.
00:55And when the film wrapped, I had a full-blown panic attack.
01:00But the success was fantastic.
01:05It was sort of life-changing.
01:07It's the film I've seen the most.
01:08It wasn't just a movie.
01:09It was a pop culture phenomenon like that.
01:13It supercharged the language of cinema.
01:16There have been movies made since using CG sharks that aren't nearly as good.
01:20The film that I thought would end my career is the film that began it.
01:30Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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