#209 Steven Spielberg: A Biography

One of his boyhood friends recalls Spielberg saying he could envision himself going to the Academy Awards and accepting an Oscar and thanking the Academy. He was twelve. I've been really serious about filmmaking as a career since I was twelve years old, Spielberg said. I don't excuse those early years as a hobby. Do you know what I'm saying?

I really did start then. That was an excerpt from the book that we talked to you about today, which is Steven Spielberg, A Biography, and it was written by Joseph McBride. And that is one of the reasons I wanted to read uh biography of Spielberg. because I think it's so there's a few reasons, but one of them is the fact that from twelve from the un from the age of twelve to seventy four, which is how old he is today, He's had the same goal.

Um he has been making movies for sixty two years. It's very rare for somebody to do something for that long, for sixty two years. So I think that's somebody that we should uh obviously be studying and learning from. Another reason uh that that he came to my attention is because He appears in one of my favorite books that I've ever read for the podcast. That's uh back on Founders Number Thirty Five, and that's the biography of George Lucas. It's called George Lucas A Life. And George and Steven met.

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