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In a 1978 interview with Mitch Tuchman in “Film Comment,” a young Steven Spielberg first addressed a story that managed to sound like “the great popcorn yarn.” At just 32 years old, the filmmaker already had two genre masterworks in Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind under his belt, and his reputation preceded him. When asked about the “legend of the boy who would sneak onto the studio lot,” Spielberg admitted that this was, in fact, not apocryphal at all, and that in 1967 he found his way past security onto the Universal lot and for three months he got up at dawn, put on a suit, carried a briefcase, and pretended to know where he was going.