Fun fact: there’s more to story. David Lynch turned it down but Spielberg has a mutual friendship with Laura Dern. Steven asked Laura if she could convince Lynch to do it, so we have Laura Dern to thank for that fantastic performance/scene.
What I love even more about that choice, is that before becoming a director, David Lynch was a painter (and still is). And he came to the idea of making a movie by imagining one of is painting moving. So the fact that Ford asks Sammy to look at a painting is perfect.
lynch is a top 3 director for me but the interview would be like 10 minutes of david just saying "no i will not answer that" lmao, it would still be fun to watch tho
I wish that was the whole movie, honestly. I liked the movie fine, but personally, I would've rather seen him actually learn to be a filmmaker and start his career in show business. The story he tells in another part of the interview about sneaking onto the lot and putting his name on the door of an empty office and using it to make movies for two years. That sounds like an amazing movie. The movie he made kinda came off a little bitter to me. Two hours of emotional processing of his mom's affair and his parents' divorce. Not uninteresting or anything, but not exactly the most compelling part of the story to anyone but him. But whatever. It's Spielberg. He can make whatever the hell he wants.
@@EvanFowler We already know about the Spielberg who worked in the movie industry. This movie was telling his full personal backstory for the first time in anything close to a complete form. That being said, I think they ought to do an entire dramatic movie about the making of Jaws.
I may not know much about John Ford but I have seen the famous interview he did with Peter Bogdanovich and I think Lynch did an excellent job capturing the sort of offbeat bluntness that Ford had, he also looked the part and sounded just like him, it was a little uncanny. Also, I’m not convinced that isn’t how most meetings with David Lynch go.
Imagine John Ford was asked today if he would have talked different to him if he would have known how famous he will become, and he answered "no, because he became famous because he followed my advice"
I’m gonna guess and say Harrison Ford was asked to play John Ford. Because I could totally see him crushing the grumpy attitude John Ford had, particularly in that last scene of Fabelmans.
Yeah, I bet you're right; it was probably Ford. Spielberg made the right choice though. Harrison Ford walking into that office at the end would have almost derailed the scene. Lynch was perfect.
I wish for more Steven interviews! These interviews with Stephen is phenomenal! PLUS JOHN! Oh man having John and Steven in the room is just breath of fresh air seeing them! Also telling stories and enjoying themselbes
Because my daughter is getting to the age where she can watch the classics, we've watched a few Spielberg movies in the last year. I can easily say he followed John Ford's advice, because sometimes I catch myself looking to see where the horizon is.
There was a group of directors who all basically came up together around the same time - Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, Brian DePalma, George Lucas, John Milius among them - that would make for a fascinating panel if you could get them together, sit them down, and just let them talk about movies (their own and the ones they love).
you dont know that, some of these kind of people tend to constantly evolve in their art and never stop creating. ageism in the industry took away from us all the creativity and eccentricity they could still bring, now almost everything in mainstream entertaiment is boring, unoriginal, "safe" formulas for CORPORATE to maximize profits, "popcorn" and made for people with fish attention span.
@@thecat1250 When Brian Depalma was 40, people bought paper magazines for entertainment. I love Depalma. But we are different species living in different worlds. When Depalma was 20, his only chance of seeing a video in color was going to cinema, where a human person had to physically change reels of film stock. If you don't think there's a serious issue at hand there, then I don't know what to say. Ageism got nothing on _time._ I'd love to go back in time when peasant family life was a competitive option and a norm. I'd be a good French peasant. Going into self-sufficiency now, just by myself, would be madness. Similarly, a panel of 80 something movie directors won't save cinema.
Honestly, I think the two minute perspective lesson in composition was basically the most useful thing he possibly could have taught him. He was a busy dude. I'm kind of surprised that it took him years to realize that he wasn't just being a dick to him.
I don't know why I laugh every time Steven swears. You never know how he's going to approach the word, sometimes very tactfully, and sometimes it just happens and he looks as surprised as we are. 🤜🤛
@@marcus_ohreallyus Also in top 5, the girl coming onto him in her bedroom, and him telling the bully he will never make a movie about their conversation.
By coincidence, I watched North By Northwest the day after watching this film. And man…that cornfield sequence with this scene fresh in my mind…Check it out, film geeks!
2:07 - that reminds me of when I saw Michael J Fox at an event in 2016. I walked up to the microphone dressed as 2015 Doc Brown. “Hello,” I said to the group of Back to The Future actors, “I’m a big Back to the Future fan.” “Oh really?” Said Michael. “I couldn’t tell.” Afterwards, another fan I knew said: “you had a moment with him!” In truth, I didn’t feel the same, but then when I saw Fox’s recent documentary “Still,” and saw a bit more of him being comedic in action, I realized she was right!
Three pieces of advice? Didn’t Lynch do a similar thing on Louie C K, when he was auditioning to take over as host on a late night talk show? (I’m sure you’ve heard of it)
David Lynch was a perfect choice for John Ford, just by delivering the same reaction from Sammy to some of the audience members. I remember watching it in theatres, while Sammy was thinking "Was that fu**ing John Ford?", I was thinking "WAS THAT FU**ING DAVID LYNCH?!"
I know this interview series is basically a FYC campaign for Fablemans, but I dont care. Not enough people saw this film, and its one of Spielberg's very best of his career.
Nice attempt to get Steven to tell what he'd say to a young aspiring director; what a way to keep it to one's own self (blame the hour glass). Hey Steven, Kaiser Jaeger is inspired to forego cussing, because a guy that can (and still be adored), didn't; thanks for the poised presence. KJ
What I have learned over the years from watching everyone of these documentary series is on these film directors including the E! true Hollywood story the best advice from a film director is no advice just learn from their mistakes and you will be a better than them
I would guess his first choice was Harrison Ford who is famously crusty and gruff. But Lynch, the painter turned filmmaker was an inspired perfect choice.
So Steven Spielberg makes the movie ready player one takes most of the stuff out in regards to him but then turns around and makes a movie about him as a young filmmaker? just odd
I sincerely doubt that any aspiring director would be able to walk into Spielberg's office... or, if someone somehow made it in (I imagine there'd have to be a connection), that Spielberg would stop whatever he's doing and warmly advise this person. Could be wrong. Be nice to be wrong.
When he ran Amblin in the 1980s, he would run in and out of everybody's offices and give them advice on whatever they were working on. I heard those meetings were very brief too though, LOL. FYI, this came from an interview with the writers Brent Maddock and/or S. S. Wilson.
It's weird hearing Steven Spielberg use the term bollocking - I thought that was a very British term, especally in the context of being a kid and told off by a teacher, but I guess that's me showing my extreme ignorance and it's well known all other the place, but hey - at least it's on youtube, which is such a welcoming place! Awesome interview, though.
Oh, no. It's definitely not well known. It's very much an English slang term. Obviously Spielberg picked it up at some point during his many visits to England.
Our Achilles heel, interpretation. How often have we misinterpreted, misunderstood a gift for being unable, in a specific moment, see beyond our eyes pov and not beyond to an underlying, deeper lesson? Hopefully, for our sakes, less than more.
You heard it here, folks. If you're a young director who gets to talk with Spielberg. You're getting more than a two minute talk because John Ford traumatized him. Get yourself a 60 minute lunch!
Lol someone's a little antsy. You're probably not gonna like the 3 other videos I just watched of Stephen interviewing Mr Spielberg. They're close to 10 minutes long each.
RIP David Lynch (January 20, 1946 - January 15, 2025), aged 78
You will be remembered as a legend
Imagine being on the set that day with Steven Spielberg and David Lynch. No filming experience will ever top that.
There's also the story of Mel Brooks introducing David Lynch to Werner Herzog. Must have been like in a Twilight Zone epsiode
Fun fact: there’s more to story. David Lynch turned it down but Spielberg has a mutual friendship with Laura Dern. Steven asked Laura if she could convince Lynch to do it, so we have Laura Dern to thank for that fantastic performance/scene.
More to that too....Lynch would only play the part if there were always Cheetos on the set.
@@TheMess9898 The Cheetos mandate makes me respect him more.
@@TheMess9898 and if he was aloud to wear Ford’s full costume every day for a period oprior to shooting the scene.
@@TheMess9898 no way! I heard he wanted to wear his costume for a week before hand. I did not know about the Cheetos.😄
Bruh
David Lynch was, of course, more than just a demiurge of dreams on the screen; he is cinema itself: fearless, mad, innovative.
What I love even more about that choice, is that before becoming a director, David Lynch was a painter (and still is). And he came to the idea of making a movie by imagining one of is painting moving. So the fact that Ford asks Sammy to look at a painting is perfect.
"Wanna meet the greatest director in the world?"
Enter David Lynch,
Absolutely
Stephen really needs to interview Lynch.
And ask him about Sting's codpiece in Dune 84...
@@acubley LEGIT LOL 😂
lynch is a top 3 director for me but the interview would be like 10 minutes of david just saying "no i will not answer that" lmao, it would still be fun to watch tho
Are you serious? Colbert is a fake plastic trees establishment showroom dummy. Lynch does not belong in that world.
@@GamesWithBrainz Elaborate on that
Its kinda cool that Spielberg directed François Truffaut and David Lynch in a lifetime
He also directed Richard Attenborough, Edward Burns, Tim Blake Nelson, and Tim Robbins. All great directors.
@@joliecide Paul Thomas Anderson and Cameron Crowe too (both have cameos in Minority Report)
Steven Spielberg directing David Lynch as John Ford is something I never thought I'd ever see.
Saw the film today. That Lynch scene is classic.
I wish that was the whole movie, honestly. I liked the movie fine, but personally, I would've rather seen him actually learn to be a filmmaker and start his career in show business. The story he tells in another part of the interview about sneaking onto the lot and putting his name on the door of an empty office and using it to make movies for two years. That sounds like an amazing movie. The movie he made kinda came off a little bitter to me. Two hours of emotional processing of his mom's affair and his parents' divorce. Not uninteresting or anything, but not exactly the most compelling part of the story to anyone but him. But whatever. It's Spielberg. He can make whatever the hell he wants.
When the horizon is at the top it’s interesting. When the horizon is at the bottom it’s interesting. When it’s in the middle it’s boring as shit.
@@EvanFowler We already know about the Spielberg who worked in the movie industry. This movie was telling his full personal backstory for the first time in anything close to a complete form. That being said, I think they ought to do an entire dramatic movie about the making of Jaws.
@@jedijones I completely agree with you and for the second part, Jaws will be perfect so will be Jurrasic Park and Saving Private Ryan.
Instant classic
Would be easy to write off that encounter as an insult. Cool that Spielberg realized years later what he had been given
I may not know much about John Ford but I have seen the famous interview he did with Peter Bogdanovich and I think Lynch did an excellent job capturing the sort of offbeat bluntness that Ford had, he also looked the part and sounded just like him, it was a little uncanny. Also, I’m not convinced that isn’t how most meetings with David Lynch go.
I loved "The Fablemans." Steven Spielberg is a national treasure.
Of Israel
Is his adopted daughter still in the adult film industry?
he is an international treasure
@@deeznutz8320how does that matter ?
Imagine John Ford was asked today if he would have talked different to him if he would have known how famous he will become, and he answered "no, because he became famous because he followed my advice"
David Lynch is a fantastic actor and I wish he'd do it more often. He was awesome with arc on Louie.
"Okay! You bought yourself 5 minutes!" 😆
He should be invited to act in one the new Dune movies. It would be a nice homage.
I’m gonna guess and say Harrison Ford was asked to play John Ford. Because I could totally see him crushing the grumpy attitude John Ford had, particularly in that last scene of Fabelmans.
Woulda been interesting to see the audition tape.
I was thinking the same thing.
I am almost 100% convinced he was talking about George Lucas.
Harrison Ford was immediately the person I thought of, too.
Yeah, I bet you're right; it was probably Ford.
Spielberg made the right choice though. Harrison Ford walking into that office at the end would have almost derailed the scene.
Lynch was perfect.
I wish for more Steven interviews! These interviews with Stephen is phenomenal!
PLUS JOHN! Oh man having John and Steven in the room is just breath of fresh air seeing them! Also telling stories and enjoying themselbes
Because my daughter is getting to the age where she can watch the classics, we've watched a few Spielberg movies in the last year. I can easily say he followed John Ford's advice, because sometimes I catch myself looking to see where the horizon is.
You can see it if you look just over the horizon.
Spielberg used "Bollocking"!? Amazing
I bet it was Harrison Ford who Spielberg originally had in mind
That would’ve been cool but it worked out for the best.
It was Will MacInnes
There was a group of directors who all basically came up together around the same time - Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, Brian DePalma, George Lucas, John Milius among them - that would make for a fascinating panel if you could get them together, sit them down, and just let them talk about movies (their own and the ones they love).
Totally! I'd sit and listen like John Lennon was telling me how to write a hit song!
They told every interesting story they had probably some 30-40 years ago, these are ancient people way past their zenith.
you dont know that, some of these kind of people tend to constantly evolve in their art and never stop creating. ageism in the industry took away from us all the creativity and eccentricity they could still bring, now almost everything in mainstream entertaiment is boring, unoriginal, "safe" formulas for CORPORATE to maximize profits, "popcorn" and made for people with fish attention span.
@@thecat1250 When Brian Depalma was 40, people bought paper magazines for entertainment. I love Depalma. But we are different species living in different worlds. When Depalma was 20, his only chance of seeing a video in color was going to cinema, where a human person had to physically change reels of film stock. If you don't think there's a serious issue at hand there, then I don't know what to say. Ageism got nothing on _time._ I'd love to go back in time when peasant family life was a competitive option and a norm. I'd be a good French peasant. Going into self-sufficiency now, just by myself, would be madness. Similarly, a panel of 80 something movie directors won't save cinema.
Brilliant man brilliant interview brilliant casting decision brilliant film
I saw the movie yesterday, it's absolutely incredible! See it, it you get the chance.
Honestly, I think the two minute perspective lesson in composition was basically the most useful thing he possibly could have taught him. He was a busy dude. I'm kind of surprised that it took him years to realize that he wasn't just being a dick to him.
I don't know why I laugh every time Steven swears.
You never know how he's going to approach the word, sometimes very tactfully, and sometimes it just happens and he looks as surprised as we are.
🤜🤛
RIP David Lynch ❤
That is such an amazing story.
David Lynch is a ‘genuine weirdo’ but also a national treasure
David Lynch is a genius!
David Lynch is not that weird. He's just not as mundane and boring as most people.
Get real
And one of my favorite directors.
he's too sane for normalcy
Both Spielberg and Lynch are among the greatest directors of all time.
'Crustiness' is underrated.
In people, not snack foods.
I effin LOVED that scene and yes... That last shot is GENIUS!!!! WE NEED A SEQUEL!!!
This was really great to see because an A list director did the same to me 2 years ago and looking back it was pretty great advice.
Such a good movie
I think the lesson was also that if you're deterred by that lesson you aren't fit for moviemaking.
What a wonderful distinguished guest to have on. I love this😊
Anyone suspect the original actor to play John Ford was in fact Harrison Ford?
Best scene of the movie!
It's a tie between that and the camping footage scene.
@@marcus_ohreallyus Also in top 5, the girl coming onto him in her bedroom, and him telling the bully he will never make a movie about their conversation.
@@marcus_ohreallyus And the seagull bombing people
By coincidence, I watched North By Northwest the day after watching this film. And man…that cornfield sequence with this scene fresh in my mind…Check it out, film geeks!
It's been said that the greatest artists are entirely themselves. Steven Speilberg is point-in-case.
Seems like John Ford was too 😅
That was nice of speilberg to say he learned from a man who was mean to him.
US guy says 'bollocking'. Yesssss!
that scene made me SMILE like an idiot. I had no idea David was in the film. so good
Stephen Colbert Steven Spielberg on casting david lynch fabelmans awesomeness job
2:07 - that reminds me of when I saw Michael J Fox at an event in 2016.
I walked up to the microphone dressed as 2015 Doc Brown.
“Hello,” I said to the group of Back to The Future actors, “I’m a big Back to the Future fan.”
“Oh really?” Said Michael. “I couldn’t tell.”
Afterwards, another fan I knew said: “you had a moment with him!”
In truth, I didn’t feel the same, but then when I saw Fox’s recent documentary “Still,” and saw a bit more of him being comedic in action, I realized she was right!
How great was it for Steven to watch Key He Quan get his Oscar,and Harrison handing it to him? That was amazing to watch
David Lynch did amazing job.
Three pieces of advice? Didn’t Lynch do a similar thing on Louie C K, when he was auditioning to take over as host on a late night talk show? (I’m sure you’ve heard of it)
David Lynch was a perfect choice for John Ford, just by delivering the same reaction from Sammy to some of the audience members.
I remember watching it in theatres, while Sammy was thinking "Was that fu**ing John Ford?", I was thinking "WAS THAT FU**ING DAVID LYNCH?!"
I know this interview series is basically a FYC campaign for Fablemans, but I dont care. Not enough people saw this film, and its one of Spielberg's very best of his career.
RIP David Lynch
that movie is good it showed how film comes from thought to well film lol great story
Nice attempt to get Steven to tell what he'd say to a young aspiring director; what a way to keep it to one's own self (blame the hour glass). Hey Steven, Kaiser Jaeger is inspired to forego cussing, because a guy that can (and still be adored), didn't; thanks for the poised presence. KJ
loved that he used the term "bollocking". probably learnt it on Saving private ryan
Or all of the British actors on band of brothers.
What I have learned over the years from watching everyone of these documentary series is on these film directors including the E! true Hollywood story the best advice from a film director is no advice just learn from their mistakes and you will be a better than them
Damn good film. Brilliant scene.
Who was the original actor that was supposed to be Ford?
Amazing casting and perfect ending to the movie
That scene was worth the price of admission, and worth sitting through 2-1/2 hours ...
"Not to spoil anything." Continues to explain the main points of what happens.....
It's awesome that Spielberg has an Empire Strikes Back(?) arcade cabinet
I would guess his first choice was Harrison Ford who is famously crusty and gruff. But Lynch, the painter turned
filmmaker was an inspired perfect choice.
The fanboy in me who loves both Lynch and Spielberg is going crazy ♥️
0:28 I wonder who the actor was
Tom Hanks maybe?
It was also David Lynch.
Thinking Harrison Ford?
Tom hanks
I think he was gonna pick Harrison Ford...which woulda been interesting.
Lynch is perfect though because he really is idgaf director like Ford
Love that he said 'gave me a bollocking'. I thought this slang phrase was unique to the UK
Sometimes the best Advice we get comes from the meanest People or who we perceive as mean
David Lynch has inspired me and many others to start Transcendental Meditation. A huge step forward for us.
Looking at pictures of Ford, I have a suspicion that the actor Speilberg originally had in mind was Tom Hanks.
Lynch was perfect for it but visually I’d say Geoffrey Rush would’ve fit for the role.
"No! No! No! The HORIZON! Where is the HO-RI-ZON!"
Meeting your heroes is always risky, I've been lucky enough for mine to have given me time and good advice that I have always tried to keep in mind.
My mom has a friend named Jonathan Taylor Thomas. He would be great in a Spielberg movie! I'll try to set something up.
This is the first time I've heard Spielberg admit that John Ford's harsh words actually traumatized him for a little while.
I've seen Fabelmans four times and I still believe Speilberg is playing John Ford even though I know it's Lynch.
Hitchcock also hurt his feelings by not even meeting him... but he made Minority Report. It's a love letter to Hitchcock
Thanks You God for all beloveds at eternity and than never fault You! 💃🕺😍☕💗💐🌮🌭🍿🤣👮🔥✨🍝🍳🍼🍇🤗🐥🍞😜🤭🤭🥴😝👼😇🕊️🥰💘👑😁🌈🐬😘
Royal dano talk about orson Welles
part 2
So Steven Spielberg makes the movie ready player one takes most of the stuff out in regards to him but then turns around and makes a movie about him as a young filmmaker? just odd
"arguably the greatest director in America History" ? No, Sir. That would be you.
Nah
The casting of David Lynch is one of the few positives among the cons regarding this film.
I sincerely doubt that any aspiring director would be able to walk into Spielberg's office... or, if someone somehow made it in (I imagine there'd have to be a connection), that Spielberg would stop whatever he's doing and warmly advise this person. Could be wrong. Be nice to be wrong.
When he ran Amblin in the 1980s, he would run in and out of everybody's offices and give them advice on whatever they were working on. I heard those meetings were very brief too though, LOL. FYI, this came from an interview with the writers Brent Maddock and/or S. S. Wilson.
I believe it. He’s a genuinely nice person.
They don't talk about david at all
Shame John Ford didn't live long enough to see the biggest Spielberg films.
❤
It's weird hearing Steven Spielberg use the term bollocking - I thought that was a very British term, especally in the context of being a kid and told off by a teacher, but I guess that's me showing my extreme ignorance and it's well known all other the place, but hey - at least it's on youtube, which is such a welcoming place! Awesome interview, though.
Or he just picked it up from British people
Oh, no. It's definitely not well known. It's very much an English slang term. Obviously Spielberg picked it up at some point during his many visits to England.
Intelligent questions.
Did Steven Spielberg just say bollocking?
Our Achilles heel, interpretation. How often have we misinterpreted, misunderstood a gift for being unable, in a specific moment, see beyond our eyes pov and not beyond to an underlying, deeper lesson? Hopefully, for our sakes, less than more.
Where’s today’s monologue?
You heard it here, folks. If you're a young director who gets to talk with Spielberg. You're getting more than a two minute talk because John Ford traumatized him. Get yourself a 60 minute lunch!
I wonder who the friend was Spielberg originally had in mind? I'm guessing Richard Dreyfuss.
star wars arcarde in back !
Toasty buns
Lynch is nowhere near Spielberg's level. His movies are trash.
After.. Luis bunuel.. Salvador dali... David lynch.. Mulholland drive.. Club.. Silencio
I think David Lynch was cast as a joke, because he is an absolute opposite of John Ford, both as a person and in the style of his films.
🎬 Steven Spielberg 🏆🏆🏆is still, to this day in 2023, inspiring nerds like me 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🙂
A Lynchian Nightmare - ua-cam.com/video/gm_lkSyKcc8/v-deo.html&ab_channel=DikshitPhukan
Uuh, an entire THREE mintes video with Steven Spielberg. You really exerted yourself here. Did you run out of SD cards?
Lol someone's a little antsy. You're probably not gonna like the 3 other videos I just watched of Stephen interviewing Mr Spielberg. They're close to 10 minutes long each.
Well, this is pretty much an outtake. Last week we got about thirty minutes of the interview...
And, when will Dpielberg who understands genocide condemn the genocide in Gaza?
First to comment.
And you wasted it with this?
@@jadedjane6241*wasted
@@christopherporter2459 thanks!