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...family room is the food room. "We have about six wasted rooms in our house," Spielberg says, "because we just live in the kitchen." On one wall hangs a large board that notes everyone's activities, from karate lessons and art classes to Dad's location shoots; nearby, behind safety glass, is one of the original balsa-wood Rosebud sleds from Citizen Kane. "There's also this couch," says Capshaw, "which is Steven Central. He has a bunch of scripts to read, and tapes--casting reels, dailies, bits of animation--that he pops into...
...Spielberg may also have chafed as an executive and poster child for investors in the long launch of DreamWorks, which is moseying toward its first feature release more than two years after attracting $2 billion in start-up capital. "You can tell he was depressed over the business stuff he's got into," says a colleague. "He always says, pleadingly, 'I'm only a film director!' But of course he's much more: studio owner, pop icon, a father, a mentor, a major mogul in spite of himself...
...Spielberg recalls with a shudder the morning at DreamWorks when he glanced at his daily log and saw that "every meeting I had scheduled had nothing to do with directing movies. That's when I realized that what I do best is what my partners would want me to do: direct." Katzenberg agrees. "The best thing Steven can do for us is to stay on a movie set," he says. Spielberg's deal with DreamWorks is that he will direct one film "at home" for every two he makes outside. Amistad is a DreamWorks venture; The Lost World...
...last September, like a Spielberg movie kid back home after an encounter with aliens, pirates or the wartime Japanese, he walked into the woods of Eureka, Calif., to begin shooting The Lost World. "A chortle came out of me when I saw him that first day," says Jeff Goldblum, who reprises his role as mathematician Ian Malcolm. "He said he was nervous because he hadn't directed in a while, but he fell right into it. He was massively prepared, brimming with confidence--a creative, improvisatory force on the set, thrilled and confused about making stuff up right there...
...loves making them for less than today's big spenders. With all its effects, The Lost World cost about $75 million, peanuts compared with this summer's Speed 2: Cruise Control, heading for $140 million, and The Titanic, at about $200 million. During an Amistad pre-production conference, Spielberg flummoxed Katzenberg and DreamWorks film exec Walter Parkes by demanding that the already relatively frugal $56 million budget be cut an additional $20 million. "I saw The English Patient," he said. "I know we can do this for less." Spielberg enjoys talking about his work. "I'm deciding whether...