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I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

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Steven Spielberg
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 18
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