did at a lot of other places. >> oh, yeah, you can't sit there. >> why not? >> that's where sheldon sits. >> he can't sit somewhere else? >> oh, no. no, you see in the winter, that seat is close enough to the radiator that he's warm yet not so close that he sweats. in the summer, it's in the direct path of a crossbreeze, opening windows there and there. he can still talk to everybody, yet not so wide that the picture still looks distorted. >> perhaps there's hope for you after all. four of the biggest money-making films of recent times have come from two young gifted filmmakers. george lucas and stephen spielberg. they're friends so it was inevitable they would join. they are set to release an adventure film this week. ♪ >> george says, i have something called "raiders of the last arc." it's just an idea i have for the movie. he told me about this idea of a sort of marauding archeologist with the hat and a whip and i committed to the story based on one line george told me. larry and gorge and i sat around and made up the story from beginning to end. >> there is a line in kwd raiders" that means a lot to me. in the middle of an action sequence, they've lost control of arc of the covenant. indy says i'm going to get it back. his friend says, how are you going to do it? >> i don't know. i'm making it up as i go. >> that to me was what life was like. we just make it up as we go. and indiana jones is very good at that. >> we came up with an idea, like a truck chase, and then we figured, well, how do we get the truck chase in the movie? so we had these big kind of subjects and then we kind of reverse engineered in order for it to earn its place in the story. >> spielberg is a master of staging. even when they're moving very fast and cutting very quickly, you always know the lay of the land. >> he can create suspense out of details big and small. there's always the action that the audience can see but the characters can't see. so the audience is aware that not only is indy maybe going to get beaten to death by this enormous nazi, but also the whole thing might blow up. >> you wonder why your blood gets up when you watch them. it's craftsmanship and art. >> everybody in this town is talking about steven spielberg's latest film "et." i was there at 12:00 noon and there were literally thousands of people waiting to get in. >> "et" has become the industry's biggest money maker ever. >> i had this story i was going to write about how the divorce between my mom and dad affected me and my three sisters, and so i combined that with one about an alien who himself is divorced from his own species and is lost 3 million light years from home. >> i don't like his feet. >> can you imagine if that film didn't have those kids, every one of them, henry thomas, drew barrymore, robert m'naghten. that's the secret sauce to that movie. >> i just wanted to say good-bye. >> all the kids had fallen in love with et and i like to think that et had fallen in love with them. that good-bye was genuine. those tears were real. >> be good. >> yes. >> steven spielberg movies, they are big blockbusters, by they are personal stories, they are small stories told against a giant canvas. >> they're here. >> in the 1980s, i really felt that i was speaking to myself, loving escapism. polt geist was about all escapism. what happens? the tree comes into the window and grabs the kid. i made stories about kids on one final adventure as "the goonies" and discovered the riches to save their parents' homes. suburban stories about gremlins running around and tearing things up. just loving stories that were bizarre. >> everybody has dreams or thoughts, fantasies of going back in time somewhere, and he put it together for the modern age. >> you're telling me that you built a time machine out of a delorean? >> the way i see it, if you're going to build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style? >> it was a mystery that it was as big a hit as it was when it came out, but what the real mystery is that it's endured for decades. >> saturday night, we're sending you back to the future. >> a simple idea, which is what would it be like to see your parents when they were younger, is something that obviously is multigenerational. >> jeez, you smoke, too? >> you're beginning to sound just like my mother. >> the only thing that was weird about the story, it's a boy going back in time and meeting his mother and she falls in love with the son she hasn't yet had. that was pretty kinky for me. >> that's a big bruise you have there. >> but they pulled it off. >> i was exhausted at the end of "back to the future" and then he makes "who framed roger rabbit." it's like he took "back to the future" and tripled it. >> you're under arrest. >> there's a scene where donald duck and daffy duck are having a piano duel. at the same time, penguins are serving drinks, and if you look at the making of of that individual scene, it's utter complete and total chaos. there's real actors pretending to be drinking. there's trays moving around on these iron rods. >> that was a hard movie. that's a sort of ignorance is bliss category that that movie should fall into because that's a movie no sane person would attempt to make. >> i loved playing villains. i was a kid and the first walt disney movie came out. there are dark moments in each of those that scared the hell out of me so it's payback. >> remember me, eddie? >> i killed you brother, i talked. >> i got some moments in there that will be in their worst nightmares for the rest of their life. >> the trick to making that blend of live-action animation is that the live-action actor has to believe it. bob always believed that the rabbit was there. it really is an amazing performance. i mean, it's really one that actors should study. >> because it was made before a lot of cgi existed, it was old school movie making with physical special effects. "who framed roger rabbit" is the most complicated movie ever made. >> don't tell me you lost your sense of humor already. >> does this answer your question? hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from the u.s. and all around the world. i'm natalie allen and this is "cnn newsroom." well, we begin in southern california. it has not had a major earthquake since 1999, until now. the relative quiet ended without warning thursday when a 6.4 earthquake shook the ground from los angeles to las vegas. more than 150 aftershocks followed. some of them quite strong. the epicenter was about 240 kilometers north of los angeles near the community of ridge crest. children performing a holiday program in the town were terrified as the auditorium began shaking. listen. ♪ [ kids screaming ] >> everyone got out okay, we're happy to say, but a wall behind the stage later collapsed. the town has now declared a state of emergency. we get the latest from cnn's nick watt, who is there. >> reporter: this is ridge crest, california, town of about 30,000 people that bore the brunt of this earthquake. the biggest earthquake to hit southern california in 20 years. this is a town of about 30,000 people. they have suffered some minor injuries, some power lines down, some gas lines broken, a few fires, some cracks in walls, some cracks in roads, but nothing major. so far no terrible injuries and no fatalities. and authorities feel that they have got a handle on the situation, but what everybody is waiting for are the aftershocks. there have been many, many so far, and we are warned that there will be many more. seismologists down at cal tech say that there is an 80% probability of a 5.0 aftershock or greater. now, this quake was felt as far away as vegas and the coast, los angeles. now, people in l.a. were wondering why their early warning app didn't trigger. well, because by the time it got to l.a., this was just felt as a 4.5 and the threshold to trigger was 5.0. that has already been changed. people up here in ridgecrest up in the mojave desert braced for the aftershocks and, of course, southern californiaens, as they have been for a long time are braced ready for the big one. and this might just be a warning sign for people to get prepared for heaven forbid if that ever comes. nick watt, cnn, ridgecrest, california. >> yeah, meteorologist karen maginnis is here now. the talk about how severe this was and the number, the hundreds of aftershocks they're having to endure. can't imagine what's that like for these people. >> you know, it unnerves everybody. you know, when you've been through a tornado, you know that tornado is over. with these earthquakes and the aftershocks, they're not over. this could last for months. there was an earthquake in bakersfield back in the '50s. it wasn't even as significant as this one. and they had aftershocks for six months. and this is not going to be anything unusual for them. all right. let's go ahead and show you what's happened as far as where the area that was hit with this magnitude 6.4. initially it was a 6.6 magnitude, and now the depth of this is now about seven miles deep. all right. here is southern california. there is los angeles. and what are all these marks? i know it looks a little