"A Conversation with Steven Spielberg"

Interview

By: Michael Sragow

Date: 1982

Source: Sragow, Michael. "A Conversation with Steven Spielberg." Reprinted from Rolling Stone, July 22, 1982. In Steven Spielberg Interviews. Edited by Lester D. Friedman and Bret Notbohm. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000, 107–113.

About the Author: Michael Sragow is a film reviewer whose critiques have appeared in New Yorker, The Baltimore Sun, Rolling Stone, and other publications. He attended film school at New York University and later completed his degree in literature and history at Harvard.

Introduction

Steven Spielberg was already a well-known film director by the time of his 1982 Rolling Stone interview with Michael Sragow. Jaws (1975) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) were blockbuster hits in the theaters. This interview took place prior to the...

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