My sister met him probably 15 years ago in Washington D.C., but decided not to bother him since he was having dinner and an intense conversation with the woman he was with, I'm guessing Melissa Mathison. She said he didn't look like he wanted to be interupted, but I really wish she had because I would have flipped over his autograph, especially since I was a kid at the time. I still give her a hard time today about it. One thing that I was always intrigued by, was her comment on his height saying he was about 6ft, comparing him to me now. Now he's always been listed at 6ft1(I'm guessing a barefoot estimate), which would make him 6ft2 with shoes on which is pretty tall. But these days he looks all of 5ft11, still above average. I'm guessing he shrunk a bit with age, but have any of you met him in recent years that can attest to his height. All I know is onscreen as a kid he looked huge to me, but as I got older he got more average.