How we made Short Circuit, by Steve Guttenberg and John Badham

A producer said: Great - but can he dance?" So we got him to move like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever'

The second I read the script, about a robot becoming self-aware after being struck by lightning, I put it down and said: This is a hit." It was a timeless story about an underdog, a friendship and being an outsider. It also had John Badham as director who had done Saturday Night Fever and War Games. He knew how to make a movie like this work. It felt like a piece that was going to be around a long time and I grabbed it with both hands.