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Steven Spielberg delivered a blockbuster speech accepting the Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the Berlin Film Festival, reports Variety. The filmmaker said that despite directing for six decades, making Duel and Jaws felt like "last year". "I know a lot more about moviemaking than I did when I directed my first feature film at 25," Spielberg said, notes Variety. "But the anxieties and the uncertainties and the fears that tormented me as I began shooting Duel have stayed vivid for 50 years, as if no time has passed." Steven Spielberg Hugs and Thanks Tom Cruise for Saving 'Hollywood's A**' With Top Gun Maverick at Oscars 2023 Nominees Luncheon.

"And luckily for me, the electric joy I feel on the first day of work as a director is as imperishable as my fears, because there's no place more like home for me than when I'm working on a set," the auteur added. "I also feel a little alarmed to be told I've lived a lifetime because I'm not finished, I want to keep working. I want to keep learning and discovering and scaring the shit out of myself, and sometimes the shit out of you," Spielberg said, according to Variety.

Talking about his autobiographical film, the multiple-Oscar-nominated The Fabelmans, according to Variety, Spielberg said it happened because "it was time to look back at my early life at the world I was born into and emerged out of so that I could make my way, make my mistakes and make my movies, and because I made my movies, I get to be in Berlin tonight accepting this overwhelming honour for lifetime achievement."

Spielberg was introduced onto the stage by U2 frontman Bono, adds Variety. "Steven Spielberg's films have touched so many hearts for so many years because each of them tells a human story," Bono said. "Every story is Steven's story, but he uses all his skills to make it your story too, our story too, my story too."