BERLIN : Director Steven Spielberg, picking up a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival, said the prospect of making new films continued to excite him at 76, and unveiled new details of his planned HBO series.The director, whose credits include some of the biggest-grossing and best-loved w
BERLIN : Director Steven Spielberg, picking up a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival, said the prospect of making new films continued to excite him at 76, and unveiled new details of his planned HBO series.
"Whatever seized me as a little kid is the same feeling I retained all those decades later," he told reporters on Tuesday."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." "We're mounting a large production for HBO based on Stanley's original script 'Napoleon'," he said."A seven-part limited series."
"My mom used to say: 'I've given you so much good material. When are you going to use that material?'" he said."The fear I felt about the pandemic gave me the courage to tell my personal story."
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