Steven Spielberg
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I mean, my kids have at least kept me current.
Yeah.
I don't have a reality about that.
Yes, I'm sure.
I don't even have my name on my directing chair on sets.
I don't put my name on directing chairs on sets.
The thing that my biggest challenge when I'm working with actors who I haven't worked with before is to get them to forget every movie I ever made.
And just completely divest yourselves of everything you think I am
And let's just get down to the business at hand and let's make a great movie together.
And let's tell a great story together.
Because whenever I make a movie, I have a family.
It's a film family.
It's an ensemble.
It's a company of actors and crew as well.
And we need to be a family for a long time.
Sometimes months on end, we're working together.
And I can't let anything distract them.
And look, it's fine if they want to talk about what E.T.
meant to them when they were eight years old.
I'm happy about having that conversation.