Steven Spielberg and Janusz Kaminski: Images of the Imagination

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🗓️ 6 June 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Steven Spielberg hired Janusz Kaminski as the cinematographer for "Schindler's List” twenty-five years ago, and they have worked together, hand-in-glove, ever since. Their collaboration has produced "Saving Private Ryan," "Bridge of Spies," "Lincoln," and many others. In this episode, both filmmakers tell how they fell in love with the movies, and learned to make them. Spielberg talks about his first camera and trusting his instincts, and Kaminski talks about how growing up in 1970's Poland gave him an unusual eye on the world. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2016

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0:00.0	This is a podcast about passion, vision, and perseverance from the Academy of Achievement.
0:07.5	I'm Alice Winkler.
0:09.5	Had a name, this child is gifted, and I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
0:16.4	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't take it, you may never have
0:21.9	another job.
0:22.6	It all was so clear.
0:24.1	It was just like the picture started to form itself.
0:27.3	There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth.
0:31.8	Darkness over light, death over life.
0:35.0	Every day I wake up and decide.
0:38.0	Today I'm going to love my life.
0:40.0	Decide.
0:42.0	My advice is, if they're going to break your leg once when you go in that place, stay out of there.
0:47.0	And then along come these differential experiences that you don't look for, you don't plan for, but boy you better not miss them.
0:57.0	Most episodes of what it takes tell the tale of a single remarkable person as you know if you're a regular
1:07.6	But in this episode you're getting a twofer because the two men you're going to hear from today, Stephen Spielberg and Jano Schiminsky, have worked together
1:17.9	over the past 25 years to bring us some of the most memorable movies ever made.
1:24.0	Schindler's list, Amestad, saving Private Ryan,
1:29.0	Catch Me if you can, Munich, Warhorse, Lincoln, Bridge of Spies, the list keeps going.
1:37.0	I dream for a living. This is what I've done all my life, this is what I wanted to do with my life.
1:43.0	Yeah, it became addiction for me, creating images, you know, the sound of the projector.
1:47.5	Of course that's, that doesn't happen anymore because we don't have 35 millimeter projectors, but that sound, you know, when I hear the sound of projector, I'm getting ready to get high because that is, it's just about to deliver that emotional
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