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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

By Steven Spielberg, on Norman Rockwell

“[—And Daniel Boone Comes to Life on the Underwood Portable] was the first Rockwell painting I ever possessed. And it was wonderful, because it was speaking to me on a whole other level. When I would sit down in front of my typewriter to try to write a story for a movie, I would wait for that little thought bubble to appear over my head producing an image that would get my fingers dancing on the keys. And that was very evocative for me, that he was imagining Daniel Boone before he actually began to write about him. The work of a writer is among the most laborious and the most frustrating there is, trying to pull these disparate visual elements out of the sky and finding a way to express them in words. I love that painting because he hasn’t really gone into the rough stuff; he’s not in pain yet. He will be in pain, but right now he’s just dreaming of what he wants to write.”
-Steven Spielberg

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