From the very first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962), producer Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli had an iron grip on the super-spy movie franchise, a stewardship that would remain in the family as his daughter Barbara Broccoli and stepson Michael G. Wilson took over in later decades. And also from the very first James Bond film, Steven Spielberg was a huge fan. In an interview with The Rest Is Entertainment podcast (via The Guardian), Spielberg revealed he decided to shoot his shot after Jaws was released in 1975 (that would’ve been between 1974’s The Man with the Golden Gun and 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me in the James Bond chronology). “I’d always wanted to make a James Bond film from the day I saw Dr. No,” Spielberg said. “So I called Cubby Broccoli after Jaws and I volunteered. I said, if you need a director, I would love to direct one. And he said, ‘No.’ And he moved on.” But Spielberg wasn’t about to give up that easily. When Cubby Broccoli contacted him in 1977 about using five notes in a distinctive musical theme from Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind in the 1979 Bond film Moonraker, Spielberg told him, “…I’ll make you a deal. I’ll give you permission to use the five notes if you let me direct a Bond film. And he said, ‘Nope.'”