Steven Spielberg didn’t prepare a speech for the Academy Museum’s Jaws exhibition preview on Wednesday morning, but when he stepped up to the podium and revealed why, hundreds of press and staff seated inside the David Geffen Theater immediately got the joke.

“Because I didn’t come prepared in 1974 to make Jaws , or not prepare very well enough, I decided to risk it again and not come prepared with any remarks today to talk to you,” the legendary 78-year-old director admitted. “I’m empty-handed except for the collection of memories stimulated just in the last hour and a half of walking through the exhibition that they have so ingeniously assembled from the archives of collectors all over the world.”

Steven Spielberg didn’t prepare a speech for the Academy Museum’s Jaws exhibi

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