


It also took him years to be ready to make it. Read more: Steven Spielberg on the Glories and Limits of Nostalgia in Ready Player OneĪs an account of Spielberg’s roots, The Fabelmans, which he co-wrote with his frequent collaborator Tony Kushner, is more immediate than any written memoir could be.

No living filmmaker can match his devotion to craftsmanship, to finding new ways of showing us things we think we’ve seen a million times before. He’s made some box-office disappointments, but naming a badly made Spielberg film is hard, probably because there isn’t one. Yet his career is extraordinary in any context. Of the brash young guys who remade Hollywood in the early 1970s-among them Martin Scorsese, Brian De Palma, and Francis Ford Coppola-Spielberg is one of the few still making vital pictures at a consistent clip. Not every 75-year-old filmmaker makes a movie like this.
