Running 90 minutes, with no commercials, the special focuses solely on Spielberg, filmed from three angles and intercut with moments from his films. The program was produced and directed by Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel, who has essayed earlier profiles on Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen. Employing the identical format, Schickel is the unseen, unheard off-camera interviewer, who again elicits a previously unseen side of a movie icon.
In this instance, it's Spielberg's belief that movies were his manifest destiny. In Spielberg's view, there was simply no other choice but to become a director. There is some ego on display in , though much of it is backed up with the clips of his earliest works.
In his own words, he describes himself as a child obsessed with film, even in grade school. He won his first award for a war film, Escape to Nowhere , when he was 13. As he tells it, he never looked back.
A few years later, he made his professional debut with a 24-minute short called Running 90 minutes, with no commercials, the special focuses solely on Spielberg, filmed from three angles and intercut with moments from his films.
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