E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' is one of Spielberg's most popular films and the director admits that it is one of the few projects that he is always happy to watch again.

The 1982 picture, which stars Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Drew Barrymore and Robert MacNaughton, sees an unsuspecting family come face-to-face with a homesick alien and help him phone home.

Spielberg told 'The Late Late Show with Stephen Colbert': "I don’t look a lot at my movies after I’ve made them. I don’t look back that often but every once in a while I’ll see a movie with my kids.

"I want to accompany my kids when I see 'E.T.' with them for the first time. I don’t want them to see 'E.T.' without dad sitting there, especially the scary parts at the beginning.

"Sometimes I see things that I had intended to do that I didn’t do, and sometimes I see things that would have been a better idea than what I’m now seeing all these years later – but for the most part, 'E.T.' is a pretty perfect movie."