Spitball

Daniel spit a spitball at Amanda's head.

Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe, we have a responsibility as officers to train Santiago.

—Yes, Wheeler? —Question. Maybe a stupid one, but I'm just spitballing here.

What happens, though, if you, the filmmaker, can't get the malevolence to work? That's where Jaws had its happy misfortune, its felix culpa. When the mechanical sharks failed to work[…][Steven] Spielberg and his cast had nothing to do but hole up evening after evening in a Martha's Vineyard house and spitball about the script, story and characters.