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"&quot;Schindler&#039;s List&quot; and the American Film Institute&#039;s Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995 - and has a fulfilling family life (he carpools and fixes breakfast for the kids he raises with his second wife, actress Kate Capshaw). Yet no fewer than three times during a recent interview at the Ritz-Carlton, the creator of &quot;Jaws,&quot; &quot;Close Encounters of the Third Kind&quot; and his new World War II drama, &quot;Saving Private Ryan,&quot; the 51-year-old - sure, we&#039;ll still call him the boy wunderkind - says he still worries about being &quot;pigeonholed.&quot; Wearing a brown tweed coat and blue dress shirt, sporting a swarthy tan and a graying, trademark beard and wire-rimmed glasses, he had begun the interview with a greeting at the door, extending his hand and announcing, The story of a unit, headed by Capt. Miller (Tom Hanks), who survives the Normandy D-Day invasion only to be assigned the task of locating a young private (Matt Damon) who is the only surviving brother of four, the film begins with a stirring, brutal take on the invasion. Spielberg expanded that sequence from five pages in the original script to 35, and it will surely go down as one of the greatest, grimmest extended action sequences in movie history. [...] it&#039;s not for the squeamish; the film narrowly avoided an NC-17 rating for its graphic, realistic violence - some say because the MPAA board did not want to dictate cuts to someone of Spielberg&#039;s stature. Independent in the sense that its artistic vision is unmitigated - Spielberg&#039;s studio, DreamWorks, made the movie and Spielberg and Hanks both waived their salaries in exchange for back-end percentages, which shaved around $30 million off the budget. Even though Spielberg said that because of the subject matter &quot;Saving Private Ryan&quot; was one of his least enjoyable shoots in his career, he threw himself into the project with customary zeal, shooting the film as if he were a combat photographer:"
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