What I learned from reading Steven Spielberg: A Biography by Joseph McBride.
One of his boyhood friends recalled Spielberg saying he could envision himself going to the Academy Awards and accepting an Oscar and thanking the academy he was twelve.
I've been really serious about filmmaking as a career since I was twelve years old, Spielberg said.
I don't excuse those early years as a hobby.
Do you know what I'm saying?
I really did start then.
That was an excerpt from the book that I'm going to talk to you about today, which is Steven Spielberg a biography, and it was written by Joseph McBride.
And that is one of the reasons I wanted to read a biography of Spielberg.
It's because I think it's so.
There's a few reasons, but one of them is the fact that from twelve, from the year, from the age of twelve to 74, which is how old he is today, he's had the same goal.
He has been making movies for 62 years.
It's very rare for somebody to do something for that long for 62 years.
So I think that's somebody that we should obviously be studying and learning from.
Another reason that he came to my attention is because he appears in one of my favorite books that I've ever read for the podcast that's back on founders number 35.
And that's the biography of George Lucas.
It's called George Lucas a life.
And George and Stephen met when they were in their early twenties, and they became best friends and collaborators throughout their entire career.
And I actually just relistened to that episode.
And then I reread, I want to make sure I'm rereading my highlights from that book, from that George Lucas book every year, because I think what he did, his approach to filmmaking, that made him a multi billionaire, there's a lot of ideas that he used in his work that we can use in ours, where he just approached the industry.
He's like, well, why is, he just kept asking, why?
Why are movies made this way?