斯蒂芬?斯皮尔伯格最初执导电影的时候，导演在好莱坞最为重要，而如今拍摄电影正值市场控制了整个行业。无论在哪个时期他始终是世界上最有分量的制片人，这说明他才华横溢，又极富变通。 斯皮尔伯格对现代电影最重要的贡献在于他有着敏锐的视角去发现并吸引广大观众

下面你将听到的是一段介绍美国著名导演斯皮尔伯格的讲话。
    Steven Spielberg’s first films were made at a time when directors were the most important people in Hollywood, and his more recent ones at a time when marketing controls the industry. He has remained the most powerful filmmaker in the world during both periods, which says something for his talent and his flexibility.
    Spielberg’s most important contribution to modern movies is his acute insight to find and attract a large audience. He ingeniously revised old-style B-movie stories with A-level craftsmanship and enhanced them with the latest developments in special effects.
    Considering such movies as the "Indiana Jones" series and "Jurassic Park". The story lines were the mediocre stuff, but the filmmaking was cutting edge and delivered what films have always desired: they showed us something amazing that we hadn’t seen before.
    The master image created in movies expresses something fundamental about the way the filmmakers see things. Spielberg once said that his master image was a simultaneous combination of brightness and mystery. This appears in many of his films.
    In Spielberg, the light source conceals mystery, whereas for many other directors it is darkness that conceals mystery. The difference is that for Spielberg, mystery offers promise instead of threat. One day he talked about a previous experience.
    "My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid," he said, "and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn’t know what he wanted to do. He wouldn’t tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky. And my dad spread out a blanket. We lay down and looked at the sky, and I saw for the first time all these meteors. "
    "What scared me was being awakened in the middle of the night and taken somewhere without being told where. But what didn’t scare me, but was very soothing, was watching this meteor shower. And I think from that moment on, I never looked at the sky and thought it was a bad place. "
    Spielberg has always maintained superb quality control and when his films work, they work on every level that a film can reach. When his films are shown, they will conquer the most sophisticated filmgoers in the world and invite them to tears and cheers.