The Fabelmans with Steven Spielberg and Paul Thomas Anderson (Ep. 388)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Director Steven Spielberg discusses his new film, The Fabelmans, with fellow director Paul Thomas Anderson in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, Spielberg discusses the development of the script with Tony Kushner, the process of directing Gabrielle LaBelle to play a version of himself, and the feeling of rediscovering his family through his camera. Please note: spoilers are included. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/Events/2023/January2023/Fabelmans_QnA_1122.aspx

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0:00.0	Yeah, the best review I could hope for is really getting a bunch of kids to run out with their phones
0:04.1	and just start making movies on weekends because that's what I did.
0:07.8	That's what you did.
0:08.7	I mean, it's what a lot of us did.
0:29.1	Hello, a... Hello and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.
0:38.3	In today's episode, a young man discovers the power of filmmaking and director Stephen Spielberg's drama, The Fableman's. Inspired by Spielberg's own childhood, the film follows Sammy Fableman as he grows up in post-World War
0:44.9	2, Arizona, and uses his camera as a window into the truth about those around him, eventually
0:51.1	discovering a shattering family secret.
0:59.7	In addition to the Fableman's, Spielberg's extensive directorial credits include the DGA Award-winning feature films, The Color Purple, Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan,
1:06.1	and the DGA Award nominated films, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost
1:12.4	Arc, E.T. the extraterrestrial, and West Side Story.
1:17.9	Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, Spielberg spoke
1:22.9	with director Paul Thomas Anderson about filming The Fablemans.
1:27.3	Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.
1:35.1	Where should we start?
1:36.5	The beginning or the end?
1:38.7	I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1946.
1:43.9	I have a couple questions just to start.
1:47.0	Did you come up at the very, very, very end on the day,
1:50.0	or did you think of that when, and what I mean by the very end
1:53.0	is the adjustment of the camera for the horizon line?
1:57.0	I thought about that on the day I was shooting.
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