Steven Spielberg

Have you heard this before, this idea?

I have.

I have heard this before.

When we sit around painting models at Guillermo del Toro's house on Saturday or Sunday mornings, it's all directors.

Guillermo del Toro, it's a regular thing we do.

We paint monsters.

These are plastic, porcelain, sometimes even metal.

We hand paint the models and we talk about movies.

It's usually six to eight directors.

And we find that we have so much in common in our business, in our profession,

within the gestalt of who we are and why we do this.

And it all comes out in the wash of painting models.

So what is the why and why do painting the models help you with this?

It's kind of a Zen thing in a way, you know, it's sort of, you know, you're focusing on painting, but you're also really engaged in conversation.

It's like how I imagine the new wave in Paris might've been with Truffaut and Bunuel, just everybody's sitting around, you know, and these filmmakers hung out together and they talked about the stuff that nobody else can relate to.

And it's a great way of sort of cleansing yourself.

If you ever want The Daily to be a fly on the wall at one of these salons, we would love to be there.

I'm asking you a lot of questions about things that you have learned, lessons you've taken from one thing or another.

At some point in your life, you became Steven Spielberg, who many people consider to be the greatest filmmaker on earth.

You became like a living legend to folks.