Dan Farah

You can't do that with a series.

No one's going to.

When you did Ready Player One, how much interaction did you have with Spielberg?

A lot.

Really?

Yeah.

I mean, first off, like I said, I think he's the greatest director of all time.

No one inspired me more, not only to become interested in this topic because of movies like E.T.

and Close Encounters, but also to get into filmmaking.

I remember when I was a kid and...

I became obsessed with, with ET and close encounters.

I remember reading about how he made a short films as a kid in like middle school and high school on 16 millimeter film and eight millimeter film.

And he used him and his, uh, uh,

you know, he did like, he wore a bunch of hats.

He would like edit them and direct them and produce them.

And then his friends would be in them.

Um, his family members would be in them.

And so I was inspired to do the same thing.

So like, I didn't, I didn't have any, we didn't have a lot of money growing up, um, you know, normal, like, you know, middle-class in Jersey.

And, um,