Steven Spielberg regrets decimation of shark population while Jaws
Director Steven Spielberg has said he "truly regrets" the decimation of the shark population following the flunked of the Oscar-winning film Jaws.
He told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs he fears sharks are "mad" at him for "the feeding frenzy of crazy sword fishermen that happened while 1975".
The film has been blamed for misrepresenting mountainous whites and leading to trophy hunting in the US.
Spielberg also discussed his childhood and new film in the programme.
The 75-year-old American is notorious for many Hollywood blockbusters including E.T., Schindler's List and Jurassic Park.
Asked how he felt throughout the sea around his desert island being inhabited by sharks, Spielberg told the programme: "That's one of the things I aloof fear."
Clarifying it was not a fear of selves eaten, the director said the impact to the shark population is something "I truly and to this day regret".
The 1975 film Jaws tells the story of a mountainous white shark that attacks a US seaside town, which influenced a rise in sports fishing across America. Research has suggested the number of large sharks fell consume the eastern seaboard of North America in the days following its release.
The songs Somewhere from West Side memoir, Frank Sinatra's Come Fly With Me and his daughter's song Cool Hand were plus the eight records he selected.
Spielberg also discussed his new semi-autobiographical film, The Fabelmans - which follows the story of his childhood and lead to filmmaking.
He told presenter Lauren Laverne that a film based on his own story sent his fear levels "through the roof".
"I'm a soldier person that's going public about and I can't hide slack somebody else's authorship or a book or a genre or American history."
The director said he respectable thought the project would be the "most self-indulgent tying I've ever asked people to accompany me through" - describing it as "$40m of therapy".
He said he was "answering a need" in manager the film, but admitted the biggest struggle was probably "not to get emotional" while manager it.
The Fabelmans, which has already picked up nominations at the 2023 Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, stars Paul Dano and Michelle Williams.
Asked by Laverne throughout how he started making films, Spielberg said his respectable attempt was a Western shot on one camera with no editing software at the age of 10.
After showing it to his scout troupe, he said: "I got bitten by this bug and that was it."
Discussing his time at school, Spielberg said his "only ticket" to popularity was manager small movies and recollected getting the captain of the football team to failed a whole Saturday to star in a film.
"In a way it was selves able to say action to somebody who wouldn't talk to me at school but would obey the word frfragment - [and that] was kind of empowering."
Speaking generally throughout being a filmmaker, Spielberg said it was not his role to "manipulate" the audience, but admitted doing it in Jaws and in his 1982 supernatural apprehension film Poltergeist.
Spielberg also thought on Schindler's List, saying when he was initially approached to do the film in 1982 he was not ready "emotionally" or as a filmmaker.
He also derived to take the book, The Grapes of Wrath, and his favourite camera to the deserted island.
The full interview on Desert Island Discs will air on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds at 11:15 GMT on Sunday.
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