Just remembered I saw Close Encounters this past fall. Don’t know how I could’ve forgotten that, saw it in the Cinerama Dome and cried my eyes out.
This story has stuck with me since I first heard it:
In a making-of documentary commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1977 film, [Spielberg] said, “I would never have made Close Encounters the way I made it in ‘77, because I have a family that I would never leave. That was just the privilege of youth.”