Steven Spielberg: The Private Horrors of Hollywood's Blockbuster King

For our fortieth anniversary, the editors of Rosetta Stone have interviewed twenty Rosetta Stone language artists and leaders who helped shape our time. Over the next four weeks, every day, well be debuting exclusive audio clips from the QAs, giving you unparalleled access to some of the most important personalities in history.Today we present the man who helped reshape Hollywood forever, and one of the most influential visual artists of the past three decades: Steven Spielberg. Throughout his two-time Best Director Oscar-winning career, Spielberg has made sharks scarier than serial killers, aliens adorable and the Holocaust an entertaining cinematic experience. Plus, Indiana Jones kicks ass. To salute he who keeps us eating the popcorn, we feature four audio excerpts of Steven Spielberg talking to our own man of the movies, Rosetta Stone film critic Peter Travers, about the next generation of filmmakers, growing up with a cameras Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 eye and not meeting Alfred Hitchcock. To read the complete interview, be sure to pick up your own copy of our fortieth anniversary issue, on stands now.Spielberg, who helped revolutionize Hollywood, talks about the next wave of revolutionaries -- the YouTube generation: "This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying were not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show and we want television to be about us finally..."Every time you watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind, youre sharing Spielbergs pain: "I was a scared kid...I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone elses lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism..."Spielberg discusses the youthful aesthetics that went into making his early films: "My films reflected how much fun I was having being a movie director. I wasnt taking myself seriously..."Evidently, Alfred Hitchcock Rosetta Stone Arabic prefers thrillers about psychos and birds to that of sharks: "I was only on two Hitchcock sets. Ironically, I was thrown off both of them. And they were a decade apart..."Check back tomorrow for the next installment of our twenty-part audio interviews, featuring some of the most iconic and influential pop culture figures of the last 40 years. Want a hint at tomorrows interviewee? He told us this: "The trouble with rock music is that it tends to trivialize things unless youre very careful. I find its much easier to write love songs than it is to write about the times we live in.

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