European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Profile Steven Spielberg Man behind is developing different t p Rojec to by Jerry Buck associated press Steven up to his Long locks and yellow tinted glasses in directing and writing movies and now venturing Back into television says he thrives on chaos and Ive always always had three or four things going at the same says the 37year old director of such Box office Bonanza As close encounters of the third raiders of the lost Ark and the in much better working amidst chaos and confusion and the distracting problems and things like says dressed in a Blue and White striped shirt and a satiny Blackim much better working that Way ano1 always have so what in doing now with television overlapping my movies really int that different from the Spielberg is the executive producer of amazing a half hour anthology series making its debut on television in the he is writing most of the stories and directing Hes also producing the movies Back to the the Money and Young Sherlock around the first of june he began directing the color a generational drama about a Black family in it is a Complete departure from the thrillers and crowd pleases Spielberg has directed in the like a Hydra headed Field operates out of a command Post at the rear of the Universal studios the Home of his ambling it looks like the kind of clubhouse a kid would build if he had a million its a huge terracotta Adobe Complete with distressed Cedar hand fired mexican tile and ceilings of tiny tree limbs pressed close Hes there 12 hours a but he zealously protects his weekends for himself and his longtime actress Amy Shes my the Mother of my my Best my Spielberg Spielberg office is filled with and business on a ledge along one Wall is a Twofoot dressed like a Pioneer with a megaphone and a Crank in a kid who never grew says in his first interview in More than a in a victim of the Peter pan i love the trappings of i love to be around i love directing my House looks like a toy i never throw anything i really believe that a lot of what inspires me Are the things that inspired me when i was i like stories that were the sort told to me when i was sitting on my fathers knee at 4 or 5 years he i still remember those stories and there the kind of stories i like to see in movies and television i Hope it will continue with amazing stories because a lot of them Are stories you might Tell your kids at night to put them to who got his Start 15 years ago Steven Spielberg lets the child in him influence his grownup directing another spooky night says he has been wanting to get Back to television for some he says he went to Abc with an idea for a series of Short motion i wanted to do an anthology half hour series with nothing tying each show together except the tone of the i wanted the shows to have i wanted them to be very i wanted some to be i wanted some to be frivolous in their wit and imagination and kind of and yet i didst want All of these adjectives to apply to just one to help Spielberg enlisted some of his directing cronies Martin Scorsese raging Bull and mean Peter Hyams busting and Capricorn Paul Bartel eating Raouland lust in the and Clint Eastwood play misty for me and the the first thing they said Are you doing one he i said i would direct three or four myself the first that sort of broke the they we rent really interested in doing it unless i walked Over the coals i Haven gotten a turndown by a director Hes also looking at University film school films to select several neophyte so amazing stories is not Only a forum for but its also a Way to get people he not Only new writers and but new film new camera new directors of he readily admits the color adapted from the Book by Alice is a departure from his usual it stars whoops Goldberg and Danny there Are no special effects in the he and its a Story that wont Appeal to children or even the child in All of its an adult Spielberg is the most successful director in the history of motion pictures in terms of ticket and he says he has never been bothered by critical reviews or poor i dont need the constant reinforcement from the Media or from the although both certainly help in Liberal he but Ive always pretty much lived in my own Little world of self criticism and nobody can criticize myself More than i 20 Magazine june