To mark his 60th birthday, we celebrate the genius of Steven Spielberg by counting down (in no particular order) the greatest moments, amazing stories and monumental impact of the world's greatest film director...
WORDS: Ian Freer and Ross Bennett
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That He Owns Up To His Failures
Spielberg maybe Hollywood's golden boy but occasionally the midas touch deserts him. There have been the Spielberg movies that have fallen through the cracks - his criminally underrated debut The Sugarland Express, supernatural romance Always, slave drama Amistad and Capra-esque comedy-drama The Terminal - but two movies stick out like a sore thumb. Proving, at the very least, that he's honest to own up to his misfires, here's the director's view on the ones that got away.
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On 1941...
"I would have been better off with $10 million less because we went from one plot to seven sub-plots. But, at the time, I wanted it - the bigness, the power, hundreds of people at my beck and call, millions of dollars at my disposal and everybody saying "Yes…yes…yes!" 1941 was my little general period!"
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On Hook...
"I was not entirely happy with Hook. I hadn't seen it for 18 months after its initial release but when did I realised what I had done: I had made a wonderful movie about Kensington. From the beginning of the picture to when Peter flies out of the window in Kensington is, I think, some of my best work. For some reason, the moment he gets to Neverland it sort of becomes children's theatre."
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