When Ben Stiller called `cut` on Spielberg`s set

London, Aug 12: Hollywood comic star Ben Stiller is still haunted by the memory of upsetting acclaimed director Steven Spielberg as a child actor during the filming of "Empire of the Sun".

Stiller had messed up his lines and recalls how Spielberg scolded him for making a directorial decision on the set, contactmusic.com reports. Stiller said: "There was a long steady cam shot, where a young Christian Bale is coming into this American barracks. He walks through the whole barracks and gets to the end of the barracks and there`s John Malkovich and Joe Pantoliano and me. "It`s a six-minute shot and then I screwed up my line. I said, `Oh whoops, sorry. Maybe we should cut.` Steven Spielberg is in another building watching on the monitors and I just hear silence. Then I hear him: `What happened?` I`m like, `I just yelled cut because I screwed up,` and he`s yelling, `No, no, you never cut!` "I literally turned white and shrunk because my hero and idol, Steven Spielberg, is yelling at me. I learned you never yell cut as an actor. The director yells cut. For years I lived with this shame, but we`ve laughed about it since because he remembers it too. I was mortified." IANS