Nice to hear the man himself confirm what I’ve felt for decades…E.T. is a perfect film. Every word of dialogue and every scene moves the story forward - not an ounce of fat in it. I had the pleasure of working in a multiplex movie theater the summer of its release. Back then the largest auditorium seated 1100 people. E.T. played on that screen the entire summer. Sell out after sell out…lines wrapped around the building. I was an usher so could roam. As often as I could, I would steal away and slip into the back of the theater to watch the end of the movie with the audience. Standing ovation every time. Show after show. All ages. To see the looks on the faces as the crowd left the auditorium - filled with joy and tears. Steven Spielberg is the GOAT.
I still have yet to find what the appeal of E.T is. Not sure what I'm missing that everyone else just loves. Maybe I just don't care for his movies with two letters because I find A.I just as annoying
Ngl, he is a timeless filmmaker and probably the best ever in my opinion. Like classic after classic, versatile with many many genres, knows how to block and work the camera so bloody well, incredible set pieces, gorgeous visuals. I could watch him direct anything.
E.T. was the first movie I ever saw in a theater, and I still remember crying when he went home... It really did change my life, and how I saw the world.
Just 4 months back there was the IMax screening of ET the 40th-anniversary re-release and I was just getting out of the hospital collecting the reports and everything for someone and was in a complete state of exhaustion and emotional turmoil and just booked the ticket and ran to the theatre and boy I can't express what it felt like.
When the movie Duel hit TV in 1971, I was 13. I'd never heard of Spielberg at that point (Jaws was still years away), but even at my young age, I recognized talent. Considering that it was a fairly low budget TV movie, Spielberg really made it something great. Just goes to show that even with limited resources, talent can produce a terrific product.
Yes. I vividly remember seeing it for the first time. It was definitely something very special for a tv movie and I knew the guy behind it had to be special too for talking the tv establishment network folks into letting him make it his way. And I noticed his name popping up on the Night Gallery pilot mentioned here, Columbo, and the SciFi episode of Name of the Game which was very reminiscent of his friend and collaborator Geo. Lucas' THX1138 and so I was prepared for having high expectations for "Jaws" and I was not disappointed.
I read that Spielberg often revisits his early tv movie Duel. "To remember how I did it," Spielberg said. I studied Duel quite a bit myself, and its writer Richard Matheson practically co-directed it. (Since it comes from one of his own short stories to begin with). His instructions - so many shots we see in the film - are peppered throughout the script. It's a great visual manual in any case.
Spielberg always understood the logistics of making very tight , exciting movies. But his real greatness, IMO, came a bit later, when he learned to breathe humanity into his films and make seamless collaborations with his actors, writers and special effects crews. It's almost symphonic, and only a special few do it as well as Spielberg.
IMO, he ruined his serious dramas by really pushing the bathos at the end. Everyone hugs and cries. Literalizing emotions, like Spielberg didn't trust the intelligence of an audience, and give viewers space to imagine what's going on in the character's mind. That's what Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad does so brilliantly.
@@robvangessel3766 Rob, thanks for that great response. I couldn't agree more about Spielberg's descent into sugariness, esp later in his career. Such a shame, since his visual storytelling was far beyond most of his contemporaries. Anyhow, thanks for the line, and happy film-watching!
E.T. is in my opinion the greatest film ever made, it perfectly captures the innocence of childhood. I’m 45 and every time I watch it, it transports me back to being a child.
Wow. He's such a humble badass. Who just nonchalantly talks about trespassing on the lot of a major movie studio or directing a legend at 22? What are all the crazy stories he's too humble to even bother sharing?
Reminds of a lot of kids today UA-camrs but also a classic Passionate kid. Have had some crazy adventures like this myself. Its an inspiring story. I wonder if anyone saved that sticker!
Sitting in the state theatre Sydney in 1982. Watching ET. The whole audience was in tears. I could hear sobbing all around me. Children were calling out to ET to make him wake up. Staggering. the Einsatzgruppe running into the ghetto and the young SS man playing Mozart with gunfire in the background. Eric Bana’s wife covering his eyes when he was having flashbacks of the Munich massacre. The bullets whizzing through the water on Omaha beach. “It’s not the years honey. It’s the mileage.” From Raiders. The gasp of the audience when the Brachiosaurus was revealed. Almost every virtual scene from ready player one. You know what’s tragic? We will never see another director like him. He will always be imitated but once he has finished there will never be another director that could thrill, horrify and connect with like him.
Maybe. But you'd be surprised how very little filmmakers look back at their films, actors too. He's right saying you see things you wish you could have done different. They're their own worst critic so they hardly ever watch their old films.
@toppaepps3664 Speilberg will always be ONE of the greatest because of the films he's made, regardless of what he's made in recent years. He's still got it, he just needs the right project.
He directed Joan Crawford in a great episode ( one of the first episodes) of Rod Sterling's comeback with Night Gallery. Got creeped out enough to remember the episode to this day. As for TV, people forget he made Amazing Stories. (Recorded all episodes, but video tape doesn't last forever. **sigh**)
Amazing Stories episodes are just delicious. Obviously made by another kid who grew up on Marvel comics and that terrific blend of scary stories, creepy artwork and campy humor. Check it out.
Awesome! I wish I meet Mr. Spielberg someday [before I die] and tell him personally that his works saved my life. Thank you man, from deep down my heart.
Had to run into the bedroom and promise my little baby girl that ET was ok and had to talk her into coming back to watch the end. 😅 It had just come out at the video store. A true masterpiece!
Steven Spielberg has truly been a huge inspiration to me, I love all of his work, some more than others, and I sincerely and from the bottom of my heart love Always.
Until those little indie films, The Lord Of The Rings appeared, Close Encounters was my favourite film ever. It's still second behind that trilogy and to me it's his masterpiece.
@@timy9197 Like any business, if a product is not making money, it’s discontinued. Making movies is a business. Do you think the studio is there to make good quality movies even if it loses money? A studio that does that won’t be in business for very long. Because of Spielberg’s track record, he’s given a long leash. Pretty soon, the studio will start losing patience if he continues producing flops.
@@nicklubrino2606 Fabelmans is mid to low budget movie . Studio can afford to lose some money there . Besides , there is this thing like legacy . Cult following , in years of which it can further be instrumental to improving the image of the studio
Out of these I would only call Saving Private Ryan a masterpiece. Heck, I'm not even sure A.I. is even a good movie. If you want to talk about Spielberg's best period, you gotta look at everything he did before Private Ryan. (Ryan included)
Talent shines through and can do incredible things. Mel Brooks put out Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein in 1974. Two of the funniest movies in film history, and Mel knocked them both out in under a year.
5:45 The opposite of that would be The Last Crusade. They were separated out of the lack of parenthood, and Henry’s obsession, but the movie made them come back to each other again and value one another despite their past “ITS AN OBSESSION DAD! I never understood it…”
As wonderful as it's been to watch these segments, I do hope the studio audience also got to watch a live show with guests as well. I would hate to have waited months for tickets, traveled from a long distance, and wound up sitting and watching a video interview.
Most of us are from NYC or close, the tickets are free and its usually every week or so that the tickets are given. If its anything like when I went, we get to talk to him between segments, ask questions, interact and sometimes do more than one segments.
I loved your erudite interviews, brilliant, I watched them all three times. Moving. I wondered why you didn't ask Steven Spielberg about Ready Player One. You didn't even list it in the list of his accomplishments. A lot of people don't. It was, he said, that movie was most difficult to create. You were the best person to interview him. Many Heartfelt Thanks.
You wouldn't have been. I was 24 when it came out, and I thought it was a good movie, but the little kids in the theater were moved to tears. Those kids definitely enjoyed it more than I did.
Yes you will.i watched as a 30 yr old in 2015 and it's wonderful but if I saw in Cinema it would be magical.and I did in a late night viewing ..and I cried and dreamed of it like a child guess it depends if you have the childlike wonderment and if you believe in magic I still believe the Holy Grail is in Petra ,and that Diagon Alley exists and Rivendell
I read that Spielberg often revisits his early tv movie Duel. "To remember how I did it," Spielberg said. I studied Duel quite a bit myself, and its writer Richard Matheson practically co-directed it. (Since it comes from one of his own short stories to begin with). His instructions - so many shots we see in the film - are peppered throughout the script. It's a great visual manual in any case.
i sincerely hope spielberg's new film does well with or without any oscar wins. saying this bc i remember years ago i went to see the color purple the day of that year's oscars and absolutely fell in love it only to see it get not a single win that evening. and that then too was the year that i fell out of love with the oscars.
U help shape my life, thanks , i can’t wait to share my story of my dad and mom death, I was only 13 but I’ll never forget this stressful, and a happy true story that would touch the world heart
Mr. Colbert, you and your colleagues do such a wonderful job making The Late Show. Thanks to all of you for your hard work. The only weak point for me is when your interviews, like this one with Mr. Spielberg, are published on the internet in pieces and there is no road map as to which piece goes where. It makes it very frustrating to guess, and in my case, often incorrectly how they go together. Could you please consider at least numbering the pieces in the titles? Thank you again for your hard work.
Could/would you be able to upload the full interview (in one video). Watched part live last night but ended up missing out on some of it, for the fact that I was tired (whoops)… Thank you
Had to pause the video real quick before the interview to comment on how fucking cool it is to have that Star Wars Empire Strikes Back machine right there
Spielberg’s my all time favourite director, and there’s a pretty great unauthorised biography of him from some years ago now (can’t remember but I think it was around the time of Schindler’s List maybe a little after) that I recommend. Can’t speak to its accuracy but I thought it was fascinating.
I was in my teens when E.T. came out, and I remember that somehow it was very anxiety-inducing for me, especially the part where ET starts getting sick and the government people put him behind plastic containment tents or walls (cannot remember exactly). So although I was even then a big fan of scifi, and E.T. is quite child-friendly as a movie, I still have kind of bad memories of the first watching, and it held me back about not wanting to see it for many many years afterwards.
I love the idea of an "E.T. Part 2: E.T. Phones Home"! Now that we have these amazing space telescopes, E.T. could pass by an exomoon on his bike, land on an exoplanet, and call back home to tell us about it. Drew Barrymore could be in it again and he could bring comfort to her world after all she's been through, an old friend returns. And Reese Witherspoon could be in it also, instead of Reese's Pieces, it would be like "Reese's Peace is _____", like those cartoons, "Happiness is_____". It would be a global campaign, for real, in the movie and in reality, in countries all over the world, and unite us in our 'earthness' discovering other exoplanets and the Universe at large, calling us to see each other's humanity and to protect our own environment/planet together; e.g. Peace is kindness. Peace is love. Peace is understanding. People could post examples on social media. The best example could win a trip to the premier or something.
I am a 60+ woman and I live in Greece (a country with beautiful waters and no sharks) but this man (after the first Jaws movie) is responsible for me never going swimming in deep waters again after the movie!!!!
I'm a watch lover and I own a vintage military submariner Rolex(family heirloom), the goal is to become a multimillionaire, retire and live off my investments, I own a few real estate rentals, I play around with stocks and crypto but I'd love to take it very seriously this year, is it possible to retire at 45 with $20million, I'm currently 32 and that's my utmost goal...
sure you can, it all boils down to consistency, people most often overestimate what they can do in 1year and underestimate what they can do 5years. Best of luck.
@@KingDavid-jj7tk I agree , I'm into real estate too, I started dabbling into stocks and crypto due to it's liquid nature, made some pretty decent cash and I went all in, I'm a real estate guy so I didn't know much about stock/crypto, hence, I made stupid avoidable mistakes and lost all of my gains that same year, I was on the sideline for awhile before coming by a coach commended by a pundit on Reddit and I got in touch with the coach, it's been 3years and counting following her guidance and I've made over 4million dollars, so yea definitely $20million is obtainable in 13years...
@Patricia Martin She enjoys widespread acclaim. Thus, it should be simple to find her official website. Just conduct a web search using her full name...
Genius doesn’t do him justice. Seriously. Before her retires I’d love him to give the Spielberg treatment to a movie about the raid on Entebbe. Go on Mr Spielberg , you know you want to 😊.
Nice to hear the man himself confirm what I’ve felt for decades…E.T. is a perfect film. Every word of dialogue and every scene moves the story forward - not an ounce of fat in it. I had the pleasure of working in a multiplex movie theater the summer of its release. Back then the largest auditorium seated 1100 people. E.T. played on that screen the entire summer. Sell out after sell out…lines wrapped around the building. I was an usher so could roam. As often as I could, I would steal away and slip into the back of the theater to watch the end of the movie with the audience. Standing ovation every time. Show after show. All ages. To see the looks on the faces as the crowd left the auditorium - filled with joy and tears. Steven Spielberg is the GOAT.
Thanks for this; did anyone cry ? Weird question I know but I cry when I watch ET but find it difficult to do so in public settings lol
I still have yet to find what the appeal of E.T is. Not sure what I'm missing that everyone else just loves. Maybe I just don't care for his movies with two letters because I find A.I just as annoying
Raiders of the lost ark is the greatest adventure movie of all time.
And if not THE greatest, damn close to it!
The only one that’s close is last crusade…….
Agree
Nope, The Lord of the Rings trilogy destroys it.
Actually it’s the greatest historical drama of all time.
Ngl, he is a timeless filmmaker and probably the best ever in my opinion. Like classic after classic, versatile with many many genres, knows how to block and work the camera so bloody well, incredible set pieces, gorgeous visuals. I could watch him direct anything.
A once in a lifetime director, he is ours 😊
@andrion waser explain
Always the GOAT
E.T. was the first movie I ever saw in a theater, and I still remember crying when he went home... It really did change my life, and how I saw the world.
Me, too. I was 4 years old and I just assumed every movie you saw in the theater became your favorite.
And the music.
Just 4 months back there was the IMax screening of ET the 40th-anniversary re-release and I was just getting out of the hospital collecting the reports and everything for someone and was in a complete state of exhaustion and emotional turmoil and just booked the ticket and ran to the theatre and boy I can't express what it felt like.
I don't think an alien species would be as friendly as ET but hopefully
SAME! ET was my first theater experience
When the movie Duel hit TV in 1971, I was 13. I'd never heard of Spielberg at that point (Jaws was still years away), but even at my young age, I recognized talent. Considering that it was a fairly low budget TV movie, Spielberg really made it something great. Just goes to show that even with limited resources, talent can produce a terrific product.
Duel really is great entertainment on a shoestring. Sometimes the lack of money forces you to be more creative.
Yes. I vividly remember seeing it for the first time. It was definitely something very special for a tv movie and I knew the guy behind it had to be special too for talking the tv establishment network folks into letting him make it his way. And I noticed his name popping up on the Night Gallery pilot mentioned here, Columbo, and the SciFi episode of Name of the Game which was very reminiscent of his friend and collaborator Geo. Lucas' THX1138 and so I was prepared for having high expectations for "Jaws" and I was not disappointed.
Duel rocks!
@andrion waser Yes.
I read that Spielberg often revisits his early tv movie Duel. "To remember how I did it," Spielberg said. I studied Duel quite a bit myself, and its writer Richard Matheson practically co-directed it. (Since it comes from one of his own short stories to begin with). His instructions - so many shots we see in the film - are peppered throughout the script. It's a great visual manual in any case.
What a wonderful interview, props to Stephen and Steven
Spielberg always understood the logistics of making very tight , exciting movies. But his real greatness, IMO, came a bit later, when he learned to breathe humanity into his films and make seamless collaborations with his actors, writers and special effects crews.
It's almost symphonic, and only a special few do it as well as Spielberg.
IMO, he ruined his serious dramas by really pushing the bathos at the end. Everyone hugs and cries. Literalizing emotions, like Spielberg didn't trust the intelligence of an audience, and give viewers space to imagine what's going on in the character's mind. That's what Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad does so brilliantly.
@@robvangessel3766 Rob, thanks for that great response. I couldn't agree more about Spielberg's descent into sugariness, esp later in his career. Such a shame, since his visual storytelling was far beyond most of his contemporaries.
Anyhow, thanks for the line, and happy film-watching!
E.T. is in my opinion the greatest film ever made, it perfectly captures the innocence of childhood. I’m 45 and every time I watch it, it transports me back to being a child.
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@@FoodforThought12345678dsds thanks for your insightful feedback
I LOVE that he bust through with the cajones of an Arizonian!
*cojones
I cannot watch Schindler’s List because of the intense crying I always do at every scene - it truly is a masterpiece
Jesus, man up for god's sake
@@FoodforThought12345678dsds get some humanity
Great piece of propaganda. Can't wait until the world finds out it's all a lie. 😂😂
@andrion waser I reported him
This is great stuff. Good work, Stephen and Steven.
Perfect interviewer for Spielberg!
Steven is well known as a terrible interviewer which is why he never gets anything out of his guests that they're uncomfortable revealing.
@@sebastiananthony5442 did you really want to know whats in Spielbergs sock drawer? This is more of a statement than a question.
He also directed The Color Purple (1985).
Wow. He's such a humble badass. Who just nonchalantly talks about trespassing on the lot of a major movie studio or directing a legend at 22? What are all the crazy stories he's too humble to even bother sharing?
Things were alot different back then. Indeed a neat story to be able to tell.
I’ve heard he’s not so humble on set. People not allowed to make eye contact, people must call him “maestro”… might be bs though.
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Reminds of a lot of kids today UA-camrs but also a classic Passionate kid. Have had some crazy adventures like this myself. Its an inspiring story. I wonder if anyone saved that sticker!
I'd love to hear some untold stories of his friendship with John Williams (:
He is a legend 🥇 life would be worse for all of us without him 🎥
Spielberg makes great films and has made the world all the better with his work... Thank-You, 'Uncle' Steve!
Incredible talent! Loved his and James Cameron’s early films.
So you like Piranha 2: The Swarming? Lol
@@benwasserman8223 🙄
@@southlondon86 It was Cameron's first movie before The Terminator. Really trashy and he was mostly brought in to finish it up.
@@benwasserman8223 I know, sir.
That story about his parents hit hard. I never knew I had so much in common with Steven Spielberg, and I don't make movies. But I do make music.
Sitting in the state theatre Sydney in 1982. Watching ET. The whole audience was in tears. I could hear sobbing all around me. Children were calling out to ET to make him wake up. Staggering. the Einsatzgruppe running into the ghetto and the young SS man playing Mozart with gunfire in the background. Eric Bana’s wife covering his eyes when he was having flashbacks of the Munich massacre. The bullets whizzing through the water on Omaha beach. “It’s not the years honey. It’s the mileage.” From Raiders. The gasp of the audience when the Brachiosaurus was revealed. Almost every virtual scene from ready player one. You know what’s tragic? We will never see another director like him. He will always be imitated but once he has finished there will never be another director that could thrill, horrify and connect with like him.
Jurassic Park at the cinema was... Simply an incredible experience. It was movie magic, Spielberg and Stan Winston et al. were movie magicians.
The genius says he doesn't look back. That's because his head is so FULL of current and future greatness.
Maybe. But you'd be surprised how very little filmmakers look back at their films, actors too. He's right saying you see things you wish you could have done different. They're their own worst critic so they hardly ever watch their old films.
The best director in the world..
Dude hasn’t made a great film in over 20 years… relax buddy lmao
Alfred Hitchcock sits at the top.
@toppaepps3664 Speilberg will always be ONE of the greatest because of the films he's made, regardless of what he's made in recent years. He's still got it, he just needs the right project.
What a GET!! Congratulations!!
Amazing interview with such a modest genius.
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He directed Joan Crawford in a great episode ( one of the first episodes) of Rod Sterling's comeback with Night Gallery. Got creeped out enough to remember the episode to this day. As for TV, people forget he made Amazing Stories. (Recorded all episodes, but video tape doesn't last forever. **sigh**)
I remember the Amazing Stories. Was a great series.
Amazing Stories episodes are just delicious. Obviously made by another kid who grew up on Marvel comics and that terrific blend of scary stories, creepy artwork and campy humor. Check it out.
Good memory, F. Doe! I liked Night Gallery a lot. They made good use of a large group of talented character actors that were available at the time.
@@MrBsbotto Yup. The other great episode that creeped me out was the one in a jungle with the earwigs. Still get chills remembering the ending.
@@MrBsbotto saw every episode of Amazing Stories. Very good, but not quite Twilight Zone or Night Gallery. (Did buy complete series of Twilight Zone)
Awesome! I wish I meet Mr. Spielberg someday [before I die] and tell him personally that his works saved my life. Thank you man, from deep down my heart.
Had to run into the bedroom and promise my little baby girl that ET was ok and had to talk her into coming back to watch the end. 😅 It had just come out at the video store.
A true masterpiece!
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Let's not forget that he brought us Tiny Toon Adventures, Freakazoid, and Animaniacs!
And Roger Rabbit.
He also brought us the Medal of Honor FPS series.
Steven Spielberg has truly been a huge inspiration to me, I love all of his work, some more than others, and I sincerely and from the bottom of my heart love Always.
Until those little indie films, The Lord Of The Rings appeared, Close Encounters was my favourite film ever. It's still second behind that trilogy and to me it's his masterpiece.
I agree, it’s his masterpiece
@andrionwaser6772 You've only spouted crap and BS, which I won't dignify with a proper response. Maybe try to educate yourself before commenting.
ET was my favorite! He’s a genius! And close encounters is a close 2nd!
I guess, if you are Steven Spielberg ,you don't go to talk show . Talk show comes to you
“The Fablemans” was a box office flop. “West Side Story” didn’t make any money either. Steven Spielberg is losing his touch. One flop after another.
@@nicklubrino2606 money never determined quality. I thought we all understood that.
@@timy9197 Like any business, if a product is not making money, it’s discontinued. Making movies is a business. Do you think the studio is there to make good quality movies even if it loses money? A studio that does that won’t be in business for very long. Because of Spielberg’s track record, he’s given a long leash. Pretty soon, the studio will start losing patience if he continues producing flops.
@Nick Lubrino I'm sure Spielberg is losing sleep over your comments.😂😂😂
@@nicklubrino2606 Fabelmans is mid to low budget movie . Studio can afford to lose some money there . Besides , there is this thing like legacy . Cult following , in years of which it can further be instrumental to improving the image of the studio
Wow I learned so much about his early years working. Amazing life. Things I never knew.
Spielberg from 1998-2002 directed saving private Ryan, A.I. Catch me if you can, and minority report. 4 masterpieces in 5 years 👌🏽
Out of these I would only call Saving Private Ryan a masterpiece. Heck, I'm not even sure A.I. is even a good movie. If you want to talk about Spielberg's best period, you gotta look at everything he did before Private Ryan. (Ryan included)
He directed Schindlers List and Jurassic Park in the SAME year
Talent shines through and can do incredible things. Mel Brooks put out Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein in 1974. Two of the funniest movies in film history, and Mel knocked them both out in under a year.
@RedVIII re watch A.I again
A.I is definitely a masterpiece, the darkest film he's ever done in my opinion (not based on a historical tragedy).
5:45 The opposite of that would be The Last Crusade. They were separated out of the lack of parenthood, and Henry’s obsession, but the movie made them come back to each other again and value one another despite their past
“ITS AN OBSESSION DAD! I never understood it…”
Spielberg and John Hughes were the cultural touchstones of my adolescence.
Same! And George Lucas, too. The 80s were the best!
As wonderful as it's been to watch these segments, I do hope the studio audience also got to watch a live show with guests as well. I would hate to have waited months for tickets, traveled from a long distance, and wound up sitting and watching a video interview.
Most of us are from NYC or close, the tickets are free and its usually every week or so that the tickets are given. If its anything like when I went, we get to talk to him between segments, ask questions, interact and sometimes do more than one segments.
I loved your erudite interviews, brilliant, I watched them all three times. Moving. I wondered why you didn't ask Steven Spielberg about Ready Player One. You didn't even list it in the list of his accomplishments. A lot of people don't. It was, he said, that movie was most difficult to create. You were the best person to interview him. Many Heartfelt Thanks.
What a great interview. I don't think he gives interviews often. The questions were gold.
Greatest Director of All Time 🎉
Sir Steven Spielberg.
I'm so glad I watched ET as a kid. I don't know if I'd be so in awe of it as an adult.
You wouldn't have been. I was 24 when it came out, and I thought it was a good movie, but the little kids in the theater were moved to tears. Those kids definitely enjoyed it more than I did.
Yes you will.i watched as a 30 yr old in 2015 and it's wonderful but if I saw in Cinema it would be magical.and I did in a late night viewing ..and I cried and dreamed of it like a child guess it depends if you have the childlike wonderment and if you believe in magic I still believe the Holy Grail is in Petra ,and that Diagon Alley exists and Rivendell
I read that Spielberg often revisits his early tv movie Duel. "To remember how I did it," Spielberg said. I studied Duel quite a bit myself, and its writer Richard Matheson practically co-directed it. (Since it comes from one of his own short stories to begin with). His instructions - so many shots we see in the film - are peppered throughout the script. It's a great visual manual in any case.
I remember when Spielberg’s mother was interviewed by Johnny Carson decades ago and they had a good time in the interview
Beautiful!
Stephen - please pass along this deeply needed app Share the Meal that helps kids!!
One of my favorites is Empire of the Sun, why this film did not receive more recognition is beyond me. It is incredible
Wow....I did not know this about him. Steven Spielberg didn't become extraordinary....he started out extraordinary.
i sincerely hope spielberg's new film does well with or without any oscar wins. saying this bc i remember years ago i went to see the color purple the day of that year's oscars and absolutely fell in love it only to see it get not a single win that evening. and that then too was the year that i fell out of love with the oscars.
He is Briliant
He's a legend. Steven Spielberg is a genius. The Fabelmans was a very good movie. It shows how he was into films.
Spielberg has made some incredible movies.
Legend….need move Steven’s in the world. So creative.
U help shape my life, thanks , i can’t wait to share my story of my dad and mom death, I was only 13 but I’ll never forget this stressful, and a happy true story that would touch the world heart
Spielberg my favorite of all time : Jurassic Park, E.T., Jaws, Hook and Back to the Future WOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. Colbert, you and your colleagues do such a wonderful job making The Late Show. Thanks to all of you for your hard work. The only weak point for me is when your interviews, like this one with Mr. Spielberg, are published on the internet in pieces and there is no road map as to which piece goes where. It makes it very frustrating to guess, and in my case, often incorrectly how they go together. Could you please consider at least numbering the pieces in the titles? Thank you again for your hard work.
Love Duel, Spielberg's TV movie. The blueprint for Jaws is all over it.
Also Richard Matheson's. It came from his short story, and he wrote the camera shots in his script, which Spielberg used with nice quick cuts.
You forgot Goonies ad Super8 which I still watch whenever Ican.
But he didn't direct those.
E.T. is a pretty perfect movie, which is why we never needed a sequel.
Could/would you be able to upload the full interview (in one video). Watched part live last night but ended up missing out on some of it, for the fact that I was tired (whoops)… Thank you
Well done Stephen 🏆
Stephen this was one of my favorite interviews. I want to meet Steven. I am from SC now in Va.Beach. Please, please, pretty please
The Fabelmans might be my favourite Spielberg movie which is Wild
Had to pause the video real quick before the interview to comment on how fucking cool it is to have that Star Wars Empire Strikes Back machine right there
Shit dude! There is another arcade machine viewable on Colbert's close ups! Not sure what that one is tho... so cool!
he made the 2-3 best movies of our time...
@andrion waser
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@andrion waser Jurassic Park, E.T., Schindler's List
@andrion waser ☺️, i consider my time "our time" 😁; last few decades,
name better ones...,
@andrion waser gfuZ
@andrion waser weird relation, anyway, I like The Thing too, E.T. way WAY more 😁
OMG! THIS MAN IS MY TRUE HERO
Spielberg’s my all time favourite director, and there’s a pretty great unauthorised biography of him from some years ago now (can’t remember but I think it was around the time of Schindler’s List maybe a little after) that I recommend. Can’t speak to its accuracy but I thought it was fascinating.
He doesn’t have one film that is bad or even mediocre. Great interview.
Spielberg is the embodiment of human creativity
He is down to earth and very switched-on
STAR WARS Arcade in the background yeah! Mr. Spielberg has been responsible for a lot of great movies 🍿
Well put.
ET! Wow! What a great interview!
Literally snowed in AZ yesterday. 😆
I was hoping they'd see who could get the high score on that video game behind them there.
Legend
He directed one of my favorite episodes of Night Gallery: The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes.
Here we come for the Speilberg interview once again
I was in my teens when E.T. came out, and I remember that somehow it was very anxiety-inducing for me, especially the part where ET starts getting sick and the government people put him behind plastic containment tents or walls (cannot remember exactly). So although I was even then a big fan of scifi, and E.T. is quite child-friendly as a movie, I still have kind of bad memories of the first watching, and it held me back about not wanting to see it for many many years afterwards.
He has a Star Wars arcade machine. Great game
The color purple
I love the idea of an "E.T. Part 2: E.T. Phones Home"! Now that we have these amazing space telescopes, E.T. could pass by an exomoon on his bike, land on an exoplanet, and call back home to tell us about it. Drew Barrymore could be in it again and he could bring comfort to her world after all she's been through, an old friend returns. And Reese Witherspoon could be in it also, instead of Reese's Pieces, it would be like "Reese's Peace is _____", like those cartoons, "Happiness is_____". It would be a global campaign, for real, in the movie and in reality, in countries all over the world, and unite us in our 'earthness' discovering other exoplanets and the Universe at large, calling us to see each other's humanity and to protect our own environment/planet together; e.g. Peace is kindness. Peace is love. Peace is understanding. People could post examples on social media. The best example could win a trip to the premier or something.
What a star
Love Light Peace 🌺🍃🌸🍃🌺🌱🌹✨✨✨✨✨✨💫
Love his tv movie Something Evil
I think Duel was his best TV work, but these things are very subjective.
There’s only two hosts I’d entrust to deliver a Spielberg interview:
Stephen and Conan O’Brien
He pulled a GEORGE COSTANZA...epic
Empire of the Sun deserves so much more credit that it gets.
I haven't watch all of them yet but E.T. was my fav and Schinlder's list was very sad for me 🤗
More people gotta watch Duel
Am I the only one hates how this show will break up an interview and not even bother to label the sequence?
Other channels do that....
We've complained repeatedly. They don't care
We waited in line so long to see ET. The line wrapped around the corner of the building.
I am a 60+ woman and I live in Greece (a country with beautiful waters and no sharks) but this man (after the first Jaws movie) is responsible for me never going swimming in deep waters again after the movie!!!!
The man made JP and Schindlers List….simultaneously. Enough said. The GOAT.
Who else wants Spielberg to live forever?
Colbert 60 minute audition reel has some cool guests!
The Wake should never steer the Boat, but looking back now and then lets the Pilot know if he is sailing in circles or not!
I'm a watch lover and I own a vintage military submariner Rolex(family heirloom), the goal is to become a multimillionaire, retire and live off my investments, I own a few real estate rentals, I play around with stocks and crypto but I'd love to take it very seriously this year, is it possible to retire at 45 with $20million, I'm currently 32 and that's my utmost goal...
sure you can, it all boils down to consistency, people most often overestimate what they can do in 1year and underestimate what they can do 5years. Best of luck.
@@KingDavid-jj7tk I agree , I'm into real estate too, I started dabbling into stocks and crypto due to it's liquid nature, made some pretty decent cash and I went all in, I'm a real estate guy so I didn't know much about stock/crypto, hence, I made stupid avoidable mistakes and lost all of my gains that same year, I was on the sideline for awhile before coming by a coach commended by a pundit on Reddit and I got in touch with the coach, it's been 3years and counting following her guidance and I've made over 4million dollars, so yea definitely $20million is obtainable in 13years...
@Patricia Martin She enjoys widespread acclaim. Thus, it should be simple to find her official website. Just conduct a web search using her full name...
Happy Birthday Batushka Steven!!!
Genius doesn’t do him justice. Seriously.
Before her retires I’d love him to give the Spielberg treatment to a movie about the raid on Entebbe.
Go on Mr Spielberg , you know you want to 😊.