“I was desperate when I made Raiders Of The Lost Ark,” says Steven Spielberg in a filmed introduction to the newly restored, remastered Raiders DVD. “I was coming off a movie that went wildly over budget and schedule – 1941. Close Encounters went wildly over budget and schedule. And Jaws, of course, went 100 days over schedule and was almost two-and-a-half times its original budget. I really was ready to turn over a new leaf. Raiders was my chance to prove to myself that I could make a movie under schedule and under budget. I was trying to make a movie that was fiscally responsible.”
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