Steven Spielberg seen on stage on the ‘The Fabelmans’ premiere & Honorary Golden Bear and homage for Steven Spielberg in the course of the 73rd Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Berlinale Palast on February 21, 2023 in Berlin, Germany.
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Director Steven Spielberg, choosing up a lifetime achievement award on the Berlin Film Festival, mentioned the prospect of constructing new movies continued to excite him at 76, and unveiled new particulars of his deliberate HBO sequence.
The director, whose credit embody a number of the biggest-grossing and best-loved works in cinema historical past, together with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Jaws, has simply completed two movies again to again: the semi-autobiographical The Fabelmans and West Side Story, a movie of the basic Broadway musical.
“Whatever seized me as a little kid is the same feeling I retained all those decades later,” he instructed reporters on February 21. “When I find a book or a script or come up with an original idea that I think would make a good movie: that excitement… supersedes everything.”
Spielberg, professing he “loves to work and needs to work”, is finalising a script left unfinished by his good friend Stanley Kubrick on the time of his demise in 1999.
“We’re mounting a large production for HBO based on Stanley’s original script Napoleon,” he mentioned. “A seven-part limited series.”
Reflecting on the previous two years of frenetic film-making, Spielberg mentioned the pandemic prompted him to revisit his childhood in The Fabelmans.
“My mom used to say: ‘I’ve given you so much good material. When are you going to use that material?’” he mentioned. “The fear I felt about the pandemic gave me the courage to tell my personal story.”
Spielberg, identified for his accessible, compelling films, suggested would-be filmmakers to begin with the story. “If you want to be a movie director, first of all, write,” he mentioned. “Because it’s the stories that are going to get an audience to pay attention to you, not the shots.”