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I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

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