The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Steven Spielberg embodies The Visionary because he sees storytelling possibilities before others imagine them and translates that sight into defining cultural moments. Jaws invented the modern summer blockbuster, while Schindler's List delivered an unflinching moral reckoning, evidence of a director who operates ahead of audience expectation rather than in response to it.
“About the mind games that he had to deal with when making the movie, the movie's finished, the movie's released. This is what happens. Jaws surpassed Francis Ford Coppola as the godfather to become the most successful film in motion picture history to that date.”
“And so this is a quote from he's a senior in high school from the school newspaper. This is right after he met Silvers. So he says, Steve Spioper worked with Hollywood directors to summer Universal Pictures. Heberg spent the whole vacation working in as an unpaid clerical assistant in the Universal Editorial Department.”
“And I would say that is the major life regret that I've seen in a lot of these biographies and autobiographies. And when they're writing it in these books, it's too late. It's the fact that they overoptimized for their work life at expense of their children. They all tell you not to do it. It's a regret they can't do anything about.”
“That continues throughout the book. There's a quote in here that's describing Citizen Kane, the movie that comes from the main character of Citizen Kane, which is Charles Foster Kane, which was actually built upon the real life of William Randolph Hearst.”
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