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Old-fashioned director Steven Spielberg

02 July 2011

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Steven Spielberg thinks making films has got easier as technology advances, but he prefers the ''old-fashioned craft'' he grew up with.

Steven Spielberg likes to make films the "old-fashioned way".

The 'E.T.' director began making movies as a child and believes many people can now make films by even using a mobile phone to shoot something, but he prefers older forms of filmmaking.

He said: "All kids have to do these days is take their cellphone, flip it open and make a movie, but I like the way it started.

It was all homemade stuff. If I was a chef, a microwave would be my worst enemy. I would want to do it the old-fashioned way

"It wasn't a point-and-click art form, it was a craft. It involved solvents, photo-chemistry, cutting out poster board with industrial scissors and getting your fingers fused with Elmer's glue.

"It was all homemade stuff. If I was a chef, a microwave would be my worst enemy. I would want to do it the old-fashioned way".

His love of cinema started when his father used to take a camera on holiday with them as a child.

He explained to Empire magazine: "My dad used to film our camping trips. He'd put the camera outside the window as we were driving along, and all you'd see was a blurring, brown motion of the Arizona desert streaking past. It got to the point where I begged him to be the videographer."