Spielberg culminates his most personal trilogy about extraterrestrial life

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In one of the most famous and viral moments of the interview program for film personalities Inside the Actors Studio , host James Lipton speaks with Steven Spielberg about how the director's parents' divorce when he was young inspired some of his films. “Steven, your father was a computer specialist and your mother was a pianist. And in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), when the spaceship lands, humans and aliens communicate by making music with computers,” Lipton points out. Spielberg listens and smiles, both surprised and moved: “I'd like to say I wanted it to be a metaphor for my parents' relationship, but I hadn't realized it until now”.