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Steven also confirms he is actively involved in the adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s unproduced Napoleon Bonaparte script as a seven-part HBO limited series.
LOS ANGELES, USA – “When something rings a bell, often the subconscious bell that’s being rung are traumatic things that have happened to all of us when we were young people,” Steven Spielberg said a few hours before heon February 21 at the Berlin International Film Festival.
“I, obviously as a child, was very traumatized by the breakup of my family,” Steven was quoted as saying in the transcript of the Berlinale press conference. “I’d be attracted to subjects like , of a boy. A war separates a boy from his parents. He spends the entire time in a Japanese internment camp in China.”, the 1987 war drama that starred Christian Bale, then 13: “ I’m sure had my parents not gotten a divorce, I would not have chosen as a film to direct.
Steven stressed that he does not see making films as therapy but artists inevitably express certain traumas in their work. “We get a chance to express that trauma through painting, music, design, filmmaking or writing books, through short stories. All of that comes out in the wash, even if you don’t intend it to.”
He paid tribute to his mom. “My mom, as you know from the movie, the way Michelle Williams very accurately portrayed my mom, was very forthright. She celebrated life, every day of her life.”
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