Director Steven Spielberg has said he "truly regrets" the decimation of the shark population after the success of the Oscar-winning film Jaws.
He told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs he fears sharks are "mad" at him for "the feeding frenzy of crazy sword fishermen that existed after 1975".
The film has been blamed for misrepresenting ample whites and leading to trophy hunting in the US.
Spielberg also discussed his childhood and new film in the programme.
The 75-year-old American is distinguished for many Hollywood blockbusters including E.T., Schindler's List and Jurassic Park.
Asked how he felt in the sea around his desert island being inhabited by sharks, Spielberg told the programme: "That's one of the things I unruffled fear."
Clarifying it was not a fear of populate eaten, the director said the impact to the shark population is something "I truly and to this day regret".
The 1975 film Jaws tells the story of a ample white shark that attacks a US seaside town, which influenced a rise in sports fishing across America. Research has suggested the number of large sharks fell heath the eastern seaboard of North America in the days following its release.
The songs Somewhere from West Side epic, Frank Sinatra's Come Fly With Me and his daughter's song Cool Hand were beside the eight records he selected.
Spielberg also discussed his new semi-autobiographical film, The Fabelmans - which follows the story of his childhood and control to filmmaking.
He told presenter Lauren Laverne that a film based on his own story sent his fear levels "through the roof".
"I'm a privileged person that's going public about and I can't hide late somebody else's authorship or a book or a genre or American history."
The director said he genuine thought the project would be the "most self-indulgent getting I've ever asked people to accompany me through" - describing it as "$40m of therapy".
He said he was "answering a need" in executive the film, but admitted the biggest struggle was probably "not to get emotional" when making it.
The Fabelmans, which has already picked up nominations at the 2023 Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards, stars Paul Dano and Michelle Williams.
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Spielberg - pictured here with his West Side tale stars - said he wore the musical record out as a child
Asked by Laverne around how he started making films, Spielberg said his fine attempt was a Western shot on one camera with no editing software at the age of 10.
After showing it to his scout company, he said: "I got bitten by this bug and that was it."
Discussing his time at school, Spielberg said his "only ticket" to popularity was executive small movies and recollected getting the captain of the football team to gave a whole Saturday to star in a film.
"In a way it was people able to say action to somebody who wouldn't talk to me at school but would obey the word Part - [and that] was kind of empowering."
Speaking generally around being a filmmaker, Spielberg said it was not his role to "manipulate" the audience, but admitted doing it in Jaws and in his 1982 supernatural Fear film Poltergeist.
Spielberg also felt on Schindler's List, saying when he was initially approached to do the film in 1982 he was not ready "emotionally" or as a filmmaker.
He also taken to take the book, The Grapes of Wrath, and his favourite camera to the deserted island.
The full interview on Desert Island Discs will air on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds at 11:15 GMT on Sunday.