“Steven is underrated, and he has a lot of skill with actors. But I actually think about all this in a slightly different way. A movie like Jurassic Park is tremendously complicated. When the time comes for the actors to make their contribution, they don’t have much room to move. In that sense, they’re a little bit like the mechanical dinosaurs: It has all been worked out in advance. There’s a very limited range of opportunity, very little possibiulity of invention. One of the things Steven was able to do was to keep an aliveness and a freshness within this range. The restrictions that would make another person throw up their hands and be bored, or feel that there was no room for creativity, don’t bother him at all. He’s very able to be excited and creative within those limitations that are a result of his previous decisions.”

Michael Crichton talks about Spielberg and Jurassic Park in Starlog magazine #192.