Hollywood’s Lucky King

YOUNG SPIELBERG vs RECENT SPIELBERG

Spielberg:  1974-1998

• Director of Raiders Of The Lost Ark  (2 Samuel 6:11-12)
• Director of Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (John 19:19-22)
• Director of Schindler’s List   “Everybody remembers him.   He did something extraordinary.  He did something no one else did.  He came here with nothing. A suitcase.  And built a bankrupt company into a major manufactory.  And left with a steamer trunk.  Two steamer trunks full of money.  All the riches of the world… …There’s no way I could have known this before, but there was always something missing.  In every business I tried, I could see now, it wasn’t me that failed.  Something was missing.  Even if I had known what it was, there was nothing I could have done about it because you can’t create this thing, and it makes all the difference in the world between success and failure.”

Spielberg: Since 1998

“That, however, leaves out of the conversation the matter of luck, of which I have had a good share… …So, yes, luck… …So I hope this book turns out to be part of my good luck.”  –Steven Spielberg, as quoted in the introduction of a very recent book  (Romans 1:19-21)

SIGNS, LUCK, COINCIDENCES, & 9/11

“What kind of person are you?  Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles?  Or do you believe that people just get lucky?  Or look at the question this way:  is it possible that there are no coincidences?” –from the very first film to begin production after 9/11