I identified with the obsession that Richard Dreyfuss was struggling with. I was near it,...

Steven Spielberg: I identified with the obsession that Richard Dreyfuss was struggling with. I was near it, in that movie. Something opens up his imagination to go for something that he thinks is going to provide some cathartic answer. He had to go through chaos to reach some kind of clarity. He was an artist trying to plumb the depths of his imagination. And so I think in a sense, "Close Encounters" is maybe the most, at least, certainly the most personal film I made up to that point. Because, it was also about the dissolution of a family