I just re-listened to this entire episode and it's remarkable not only like the filmmaking genius that Spielberg is but the way that he built a business and the way he thought about building the business around his life's work. And the reason I went back and re-listen to this,

and the reason, I originally did this episode

almost three years ago, the reason I'm republishing it now

in case you miss it the first time,

or even if you listen to the first time I

highly encouraged you to re-listen to it you'd be surprised how much you're

going to forget but because I was working the Tarantino episode last week and he

kept talking about multiple times in Tarantino's book he's talking about the fact that he thought that

Spielberg's natural-born filmmaker genius, that he's made some of the greatest movies

said in film history. Tarantino would talk about Spielberg's gift of taking an idea they had in his mind and then making it real.

And the other reason that I wanted to go back and study Spielberg is because in this episode I talk about one of my favorite

biographies of all time, which I covered seven years ago on episode

35, and it was George Lucas, a life by Brian Jane Jones.

I have spent the whole week.

I'm still in the processes of re-reading and really diving deep into George Lucas's life and work again.

And so while I'm working on that, I think Spielberg is the perfect bridge from Tarantino to

Lucas.

Because if you study Spielberg, Lucas is going to play a role in his life and you study Lucas, Spielberg plays a role in his life.

And what is fascinating is when you study all three, they have an idea that they have in common,

right?

And it's the fact that it talks about in this episode is talked about in the

Tarantino episode that we talked about in the Lucas episode.

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