That was the first moment where I said, What a jolt.

Teenage Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle) directs a western in 'The Fabelmans.'Īs in real life, he was just an adolescent when he made a western called 'GunSmog.' 'And then I showed it to the Boy Scouts on one of our weekend meetings. And that was it – Spielberg the filmmaker was born. To overcome that fear, he kept recreating the crash with his electric trains, then filming it with his dad's 8mm camera. And all I remember is, it was the scariest thing I'd ever experienced in my entire life.' There's a train crash in the middle of the movie. After a while I got very involved in the story. And my dad and my mom took me to the movie in a theater. Spielberg explained, 'I didn't know what a movie was. It's a coming-of-age movie, a coming-of-Spielberg's-obsession-with-making-movies movie, starting with the first film he ever saw at age six: Cecil B. Michelle Williams is his mom, a free spirit who he has described as Peter Pan. In the film, his father (as in real life) is a computer engineer, played by Paul Dano. 'To me it was more of a gift to them than any kind of a criticism about how my life and my sisters' lives wasn't as hunky-dory as people assume.' Leah, Steven and Arnold Spielberg. 'No, I wouldn't have done anything to hurt or disappoint my parents,' he replied. 'I kind of assumed that you were waiting – a little crass – but waiting for your parents to die, because you wouldn't want their critique, or you wouldn't want to hurt them or disappoint them?'

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