Bono Presents Steven Spielberg With Berlin Film Festival’s Honorary Golden Bear
deadline.comSteven Spielberg was presented with the Berlin Film Festival’s Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement by U2 frontman Bono, who made a surprise appearance at the rousing special ceremony on Tuesday. “I feel a little alarmed to be told I’ve lived a lifetime because I’m not finished I want to keep working.
I want to keep learning and discovering and scaring the shit out of myself and sometimes the shit out of you,” Spielberg said on receiving the award. “I gotta get back to some of those earlier scary movies but that’s another story for later on.
As long as there’s joy in it for me and as long as my audience can find joy and other human values in my films, I’m reluctant to ever say that’s a wrap.” “I’ve been directing a long time, six decades, but it feels to me like I directed Duel and Jaws last year,” he said referring to his 1972 debut feature and 1975 blockbuster Jaws. “At 76, I know a lot more about moviemaking than I did when I was 25 and directed my first feature.
But the anxieties, the uncertainties and the fears that tormented me as I began shooting Duel have stayed vivid for 50 years as if no time has passed.” Spielberg also emphasized the significance of a Jewish director like him receiving such an honorary award in the German capital of Berlin. “The honour has particular meaning for me because I’m a Jewish director.
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