Throughout the seventies and early eighties, he directed incredibly successful movies like Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Yet How Everything Started to Slow Down after 1985 The Color Purple Empire of the Sun and always were middling Spielberg projects.
在整個七十年代和八十年代初,他執導的《大白鯊》、《第三類近距離接觸》、《奪寶奇兵》和1985年之後的《太陽的顏色紫色帝國》等電影都取得了令人難以置信的成功,而且始終是斯皮爾伯格的中等項目。