Steven Spielberg was a fearful kid who found solace in storytelling | Fresh Air

Spielberg's latest project, "The Fabelmans", is semi-autobiographical - focused on his childhood and teen years and his parents' divorce. He jokingly refers to the film as "$40 million of therapy." He speaks with Terry Gross about the first movie he saw in theaters, filming the iconic D-Day sequence in "Saving Private Ryan", and growing up around Holocaust survivors.
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[@5MadMovieMakers]

Thank you for the nice interview!

[@ericdavidwallace]

Steven Spielberg is my hero. What a positive influence this man has been in my life. Thank you for this interview, I am going to see his movie tonight.

[@jacolbylamar]

I agree

[@qcrew2938]

What'd you think of it?

[@sandrastone7019]

The best interview with Steven Spielberg online. A new discovery for me. Regards from Sydney, Australia.

[@michaellurie9138]

Shaving Ryan’s Privates question at minute 42. The meaning of life.

[@shakeemwinn3647]

I still remember that magical night when I saw JP the night it opened in May of 93'. It was one of the most remarkable experiences I ever had at the cinema.

[@noneofurbusiness5223]

Finally, something good on you tube

[@scoutingamerica1910]

What a fantastic interview! Thank you for such in depth questions. Can’t wait to see the movie!

[@jacolbylamar]

We share similar life stories, this is amazing

[@Userhandle7384]

I wish I could see these childhood films by Spielberg…

[@benrosn8154]

this is absolutely amazing, Steven Spielberg is an absolute visionary, one of the greatest of all time that totally use the form and craft a film to its fullest extent, they should have 1 million views but still amazing

[@kthx1138]

The opening Normandy beach landing in Private Ryan is so brilliant because the camera IS largely the point of view of the soldiers. This projects a subjective reality into us the audience. We are there.

[@dave210yt]

wondering if 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was rereleased - the Kirk Douglas version originally came out in 1954.

[@davidolden971]

It was, several times throughout the 60s and even the 70s. That was only way we rewatched movies, because there was *no* home video until the 80s.

[@davidolden971]

*Hold on! … there was “Network Broadcast” (ABC/CBS/NBC first, then later (as licence fees dropped over time … syndicated and local stations) … What you’d get was pan’and’scanned (to get rid of the widescreen) cropped to fit a 1.33:1 TV screen. (TVs were small, so if letterboxing was even tried (it wasn’t) viewers would have likely revolted….)

[@AndrewNation13]

Ya .. and toasty oats

[@handymchand]

Formed by trauma, like so many of us.

[@Miodrag.Vukomanovic]

He was on the Epstein travel logs.

[@handymchand]

You're misinformed. Also, not every name in Epstein's book has been to the island. Didn't work like that. The facts are available.

[@teresafinch7790]

Living with his imagination would we frightening for a child.