I really trust the ...

I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you\'ll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they\'ll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they\'ve admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.
I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.
 Steven Spielberg

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