THE JAWS LOG is to this day my favorite
piece of making-of material. It's like a little movie director bible.
Whenever I'm having a bad day at work, I go back and read a chapter
and thank the Lord I'm not shooting on the ocean." - Bryan
Singer, Director, The Usual Suspects, X-Men
"Jaws is one of those movies where the
'making-of' story is nearly as good as the movie itself, especially
when it is told by the unsung hero of that story, the screenwriter.
Because above and beyond the Spielberg touch and the fine acting, the
reason Jaws is a great, great movie is the script with its juicy
characters. Carl Gottlieb wrote that script and his behind-the-scenes
account of the production is riveting." - Peter Biskind,
Author, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
"Like Jonah writing from the belly of
the whale, Carl Gottlieb's journal of the process of making Jaws comes
from the unique perspective of one of the major players in the
collaboration that resulted in Spielberg's classic movie." -
John Landis, Director, The Blues Brothers
"Since THE JAWS LOG was first published,
we've seen countless behind-the-scenes accounts of the making of
movies, but none come close to Carl Gottlieb's artful, detailed, and
very funny account of the making of this motion picture phenomenon. It
is not only entertaining and insightful, but truly enhances one's
appreciation of a remarkable filmmaker's achievement." - Rob
Reiner, Director, A Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally
All of my life, I have been a devotee of
film literature. Carl Gottlieb's THE JAWS LOG stands firmly at the
top, easily the greatest 'making-of' book ever written, with its
combination of humor, insight, and suspense of a production gone
haywire. Gottlieb's work is as entertaining as the movie it is about.
In fact, you have not had the full Jaws experience until you have
read, make that devoured this wonderful book."
- Rod Lurie, Director, The Contender, Former President, Broadcast Film
Critics Assn.
"It's an easy read, but energizing and
with some of the zest of the movie - which is, of course, the funniest
scare picture ever made." -
Pauline Kael, Film Critic and Author
"For me, re-reading Carl's book
was more than merely pleasurable. I'd forgotten how rich it is
in detail about the movie business in general and about the appalling
odds and apparently insurmountable obstacles. At the end of his
afterword to this new addition, while acknowledging the subjectivity
and fallibility of memory, Carl says of his story, "This was how
I saw it.." Well, as far as I'm concerned, this is how it
was." -Peter Benchley, Author of
Jaws, from his foreword
