“The amazing thing about Spielberg is that in Jaws, or Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or Jurassic Park, his technique is to show the surprised expressions of the people. He won't show you what they're looking at.”
Kojima said a movie is boring if it just shows you everything and ends there; cinema is about imagination, similar to a book. He said the amazing thing about Spielberg — in Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind or Jurassic Park — is that his technique is to show the surprised expressions of the people and not show what they are looking at, so as a viewer you want to see what surprises them and you imagine it. Kojima noted this became a classic device though it was shocking at first, and recalled there are lesser Spielberg films where the monster never appears because there was no budget. He added that in the second half of Jaws the shark is seen quite a bit, and that NOPE also ends up showing the creature, which he found amazing.
“You know, a movie is boring if you just show everything and end it there. It's about imagination, right? It's similar to a book. The amazing thing about Spielberg is that in Jaws, or Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or Jurassic Park, his technique is to show the surprised expressions of the people. He won't show you what they're looking at. […] But you see the monster quite a bit in the last half of Jaws. Nope really shows it too, so that was amazing.”