Steven Spielberg was awarded with the Berlin Film Festival’s Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement, and was presented by Bono Vox, U2 historical frontman. The festival has also been screening a selection of Spielberg’s previous films including the 1972 first feature Duel, Jaws (1975), Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981), E.T. (1982), Schindler’s List (1993), Munich (2005), Berlin-set Cold War thriller Bridge Of Spies, which he shot in the city’s Studio Babelsberg in 2014.
Hereafter some nice quotations by Steven, at Berlinale’23:
“The honor has particular meaning for me because I’m a Jewish director. I like to believe that this is a small moment and a much larger, ongoing effort of healing the broken places of history, what Jews called Tikkun Olam, the repairing and restoring of the world”.
“I feel a little alarmed to be told I’ve lived a lifetime because I’m not finished. I want to keep working. I want to keep learning and discovering and scaring the shit out of myself and sometimes the shit out of you,”
“I’ve always wanted to tell the story of my mother, my father and my sisters, and this kind of amazing struggle between art and family. It has been on my mind all my life and it’s come out in all my films. I mean, all my films really are personal, and many of them are about family. But nothing that is so specific to my own experiences as THE FABELMANS”.
Above all:
“All those decades later, I feel like the child of THE FABELMANS, I still feel the same level of excitement when I find a book or a script or come up with an original idea that I think could make a good movie.”