school experiences
special effects created
children. See also Spielberg, Max
colleagues
comparisons to
criticism from
criticism of
mimicking in film or television
mousepack
praise from.
See also Lean, David; Lucas, George; Truffaut, Francois
college education
and Crawford, Joan
on critics
dating
delayed adolescence
as demanding
desire to assimilate
and Dreyfuss, Richard. See also Dreyfuss, Richard
ego
empathy, capacity for
employees on
employees, relationship with
enthusiasm of
envy
on exploitation of movies
father, relationship with
fatherhood
and films
yearning for
fears
childhood and adult
of insects
of rats
recreated in Poltergeist
female stars, trouble with
on film as autobiographical
on film as entertainment
on film as power
on film as visual media
on filmmaking as exorcisim
on filmmaking as gamble
on Gates, Bill
generosity of
on Goldberg, Whoopi
greed of
growing up (as adult)
Hanks, Tom, on
on Hollywood
home in California
and Irving, Amy (see also Irving, Amy)
breaking up
career and home
child with
divorce from
marriage
relationship with
input from others, using
instincts of
as journeyman director
and Judaism
loneliness of
marriage, effect of second on
marriages. See Capshaw, Kate; Irving, Amy
modesty of
mother, relationship with. See also Adler, Leah
as movie buff
negative personal stories about
optimism
as parent
parents’ divorce
in work
parents’ influence on
Peter Pan, compared with
philanthrophy of
physical inadequacies of
praise for
preadolescence of
on preview audiences
pride, warped
on producers
rapport with children
on relationships, directing
on remakes
as romantic
self-absorption of
self-criticism
on sequels
shyness of
sisters, relationship with
social confidence of
son’s birth
and stars
on Stoppard, Tom, and dialogue
at story conferences
on his success
effect of
negative effect of
and technology
televisions in household
on television, working in
time off
and Truffaut, Francois
on UFOs
and Universal Studios Tour. See also Sheinberg, Sid; Universal Studios
unpopularity
on video
on violence
wealth
and Williams, Robin
women, relationship with. See also Capshaw, Kate; Carey, Kathleen; Irving, Amy
women, working with. See also female stars, trouble with
as workaholic
working philosophy of
Spielberg, Steven, career. See also Spielberg, Steven; Spielberg, Steven, works
Academy Awards
snubbed by
winning
agents
artistically stalled
billionaire director
box-office flop, biggest
box-office hits, biggest
clout
earnings from Jaws
merchandising
profit percentage points with Lucas
profits. See Spielberg, Steven, career: billionaire director; Spielberg, Steven, career: earnings from Jaws; Spielberg, Steven, career: studio contracts
recovery
studio contracts
Color Purple, The
Jaws
percentage of gross
precedent setting
television
typical deal
Spielberg, Steven, works. See also specific titles
Ace Eli and Roger of the Skies
Always
Amazing Stories
Amblin’
animated features
avant-garde style
autobiographical content
Back to the Future
budget, keeping within
budget overruns
cartoons
Casper the Friendly Ghost
challenges
characters
as one-dimensional
vs. special effects
children in films
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Color Purple, The
comedies
commercialism
criticism (see also Spielberg, Steven: colleagues: criticism from and specific titles of works)
of characters
of excesses
of merchandising in films
of ripping off work
directing
first film experience
first television show
perfectionism
youthful appearance
DreamWorks projects
Duel
Empire of the Sun
Escape to Nowhere
E.T.—The Extraterrestrial
female characters
films produced
Firelight
future projects
Gunsmore
Hook
humor, use of
improvisation, use of
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
inexpensive techniques
input from others, use of
Jaws
Jurrassic Park
mastery of logistics
musical as future possibility
1941
original concepts
parents’ divorce, effect on work
perfectionism
personal films
desire to make
failure of
fears about
Poltergeist
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Rainman
real-life incidents in films
romantic subplots
Saturday matinee format
Saturday matinee style
Schindler’s List
script writing
for Amazing Stories
in childhood
for Close Encounters of the Third Kind
for Poltergeist
and Stoppard, Tom
for Sugarland Express
secrecy for films
sequels
short story
special effects. See special effects
Star Wars 4
storyboards, use of
style of filmmaking
avante-garde
Dali-esque
in early work
eclecticism
evolving talent
reducing artifice for Schindler’s List
Sugarland Express, The
television embarrassments
television, episodic
Columbo
Marcus Welby, MD
Name of
the Game, The
Night Gallery
Owen Marshall, Counsellor at Law
Psychiatrist, The
Savage
television movies
Duel
Something Evil
television, return to
themes
alien abduction
American paranoia
Everyman vs. menacing forces
in future projects
making transition from child to adult themes
political
separation from parents
supernatural
transcendence of ordinary person
tragedy
Twilight Zone, The
violence
World War II
Spielberg, Sue (sister). See also Spielberg, Steven: sisters, relationship with
St. Paul
Stakeout
Star Wars
box office
and Close Encounters of the Third Kind
and E.T.
franchising
music for
Oscars for
Star Wars
and Lucas’s career
Spielberg directing, possibility of
Starman
Stern, Itzhak
Stickley, Gustav
Stolz, Eric
Stone, Dee Wallace
Stoppard, Tom
storyboards
and person films
and pop flicks
in Raiders of the Lost Ark
Streep, Meryl
Streisand, Barbra
studio failures
suburbia
living in
in films
Sugarland Express, The
box office failure
critics’ response
Oscars
real-life incident
script
Sullivan, Barry
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. See Shoah Foundation
Szwarc, Jeannot
T
Tabankin, Margery
Taormina Film Festival
Tartikoff, Brandon
Taylor, Ron and Valerie
television, in Spielberg household
Temple of Doom. See Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Texas Chain-Saw Massacre, The
Thomas, Henry
Time magazine memoir
Time-Warner
Tiny Toons
toys. See merchandising
Tracy, Spencer
Tri-Star
Truffaut, Francois
Turan, Kenneth
Turner, Kathleen
Turner, Tina
Twilight Zone, The (film)
Twilight Zone, The (television series)
2001: A Space Odyssey
U
UCLA
UFOs
unions
United Artists
Universal Studios
and Amazing Stories
Duel
and Jaws
and Jurrassic Park
and 1941
and Schindler’s List
television division. See also Sheinberg, Sid
Universal Studios Tour
Used Cars
V
Venice Film Festival
video
violence in films
Vogel, David
Voight, Jon
W
Walker, Alexander
Walker, Alice
Warner Brothers
and Color Purple, The
and Empire of the Sun
and Phantom of the Opera
and Twilight Zone, The
Wasp suburbia. See suburbia
Wasserman, Lew. See also Lew Wasserman Foundation
Weaver, Dennis
Wells, Frank
“When You Wish Upon a Star”
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Wide angle lens
Wieseltier, Leon
Williams, Anson
Williams, John
Williams, Robin
in Hook
on Peter Pan
Spielberg, friendship with
Willie Scott character
Winfrey, Oprah
Winger, Debra
World War II era
Wroblewski, Jerzy
Y
Yentl
Young Shjerlock Holmes
Z
Zallian, Steven
Zanuck and Brown
and Jaws
and Sugarland Express
Zanuck, Richards. See Zanuck and Brown
Zemeckis, Robert
Zoom shots
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A
Academy Awards
La Amistad
Saving Private Ryan
Adler, Leah (mother)
Adoti, Razaaq
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
box office
computer generated imaging
critics’ response
story
Aldiss, Brian
Amblin (production company)
copyright-infringement claim in Amistad
American Beauty
La Amistad
box office
casting
comparison to Schindler’s List
copyright-infringement claim
costumes
criticism and reviews
Oscar nominations
real-life production of
recreation of Middle Passage
script of
set
story
Animaniacs
animation
Shrek
anti-Semitism, movie about Charles Lindbergh
Attenborough, Richard
awards, Irving Thalberg Award
B
A Beautiful Mind
Berg, A. Scott
Big Fish
Blackmun, Harry
Blade Runner
Braveheart
Burns, Ed
Bush, George
C
The Californian (ship)
Capshaw, Kate
birth of seventh child
on Spielberg, as Mr. Mom
Carter, Rick
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Chase-Riboud, Barbara
Chicago Sun-Times
Clinton, Bill
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Color Purple
computer generated imaging (CGI)
Costa Rica
Crichton, Michael
Cruise, Tom
Crunch (gym), West Hollywood, California
Cundey, Dean
D
Daily Variety, Spielberg on continuation of career
De La Noy, Kevin
Dick, Philip K.
dinosaurs
Doyle, Arthur Conan
DreamWorks
copyright-infringement claim
fake nephew story
financial status
as Oscar-magnet
Dye, Dale
E
Ebert, Roger
Echo of Lions
El-Shahwy, Mohamed
Elizabeth, Queen of England, knighting of Spielberg
Empire of the Sun
Escape to Nowhere
E.T.-The Extraterrestrial
box office
Eureka, California
F
Fakhran, Anoushirvan
Forbes magazine, on Spielberg’s personal worth
Franzoni, David
Freeman, Morgan
G
Gimbal, Roger
Gladiator
The Godfather III
Goldb
lum, Jeff
Golden, Arthur
Goldwyn, Sam
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Goya, Francisco
Graham, Bob
Grazer, Brian
“Gresham’s Law”
Gustman, Sam
H
Hammond, John
Hanks, Tom
Harper’s Bazaar
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Hawthorne, Nigel
The Hollywood Reporter
Holocaust
female concentration camp inmates
survivors’ stories
Hope, Bob
Hopkins, Anthony
Howard, Arliss
I
Internet Movie Database
J
Jaws
Johnston, Joanna
Jurassic Park
advertising slogan
box office
sequels to
K
Kahn, Michael
Kaminski, Janusz
Katzenberg, Jeffrey
Kennedy, Kathleen
Kissinger, Henry
Koepp, David
Kreindler, Charles L.
Kroll, Jack
Kubrick, Stanley
L
Lantieri, Michael
Law, Jude
Levy, Marvin
Lincoln, Abraham
Lindbergh, Charles
The Lord of the Rings
Los Angeles Times
The Lost World: Jurassic Park II
advertising
box office
budget
casting
critics’ response
dinosaur models
Koepp’s views of
opening scene
photography
set
special effects
storyline
visual imagery of
Lyman, Rick
M
McConaughey, Matthew
Madden, John
Malcolm, Ian
Markovich, Chuck
Maslin, Janet
Memoirs of a Geisha
Meyer, Christopher
Minority Report
casting
set
story
Moore, Julianne
El Morro (fortress)
Murdock, John
Muren, Dennis
Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York
Museum of Tolerance, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles
N
Nazis
Lindbergh as sympathizer of
New York Times
Newport, Rhode Island
Newsweek
Norman, Jonathan
O
Omaha Beach
Onassis, Jacqueline
Ondrejko, Danny
Osment, Haley Joel
P
Pacino, Al
Paquin, Anna
Paul VI Catholic High School, Fairfax City, Virginia
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