Steven Spielberg: It's all a lie

They make that face in all his movies.

Spielberg's been lying about his past for years. He claimed that as a teenager, he found a way to sneak into a movie studio; he found an empty office, moved in and started pretending to be a movie producer and when he was caught, they were so impressed they gave him a job.

It's a stupid story. It makes him sound childish and it was debunked years ago, but he continues to tell it as if it were true. Try breaking into HIS offices and see if he gives you a job.

So Spielberg has made a supposedly autobiographical movie called The Fabelmans.  I really don't believe anything he says that makes his life sound in any way interesting. 

Bernardo Bertolucci claimed that, as a child, he ordered other children around as they played, a natural-born movie director. When Conan O'Brien got his talk show he told about taking tap dancing lessons as a child as part of his lifelong drive to eventually become a late night talk show host. In Day for Night, Truffaut shows himself sleeping at night dreaming about stealing a movie poster as a child. It's all nonsense.

Reportedly, Spielberg does the same thing in this movie, showing how childhood experiences led inexorably to him becoming a Hollywood billionaire.