Steven Spielberg was born in Cincinnati (Ohio) in 1946, in his childhood he was already fascinated by the cinema and he made his school friends pay a ticket for watching his home-made movies.

When he was 12, he finished his first production with actors and script included. One year later he won a prize for a 40-minutes long war film, the film was called "Escape to Nowhere". At sixteen he made a film called Firelight which lasted 140 minutes! At the age of twenty-two he was the youngest actor to sign a contract with Hollywood's biggest studio "Universal". However, in spite of all these early beginnings he didn't become fully famous until 1975 when he directed Jaws, the film is about a very dangerous shark which eats people!

After that, he filmed two science fiction films close encounters of the third kind in 1977, and  E.T (The Extraterrestrial) in 1981, probably his most famous movie. In these films we can see one of Spielberg's recurring themes, ordinary people coming in contact with extraordinary beings, which are also very human in spite of appearances. Aliens in Spielberg's films are usually friendly and they do not want to harm human beings, that is to say: with one exception: The war of the worlds in which aliens are really very destructive! but this is film wasn't released until 2005.

 Spielberg has also directed lots of other films which belong to a variety of genres but it would be too long to tell you about them all. However, one can't help but mentioning the Indiana Jones trilogy, Jurassic Park, and among his more "serious" or dramatic works: The empire of the Sun, Schindler's list, Saving Private Ryan, or Munich, at the moment he's working on the fourth part of Indiana Jones.

The film in the trailer above, A.I was released in 2001 and it had to be directed (initially) by Stanley Kubrik. The movie talks about the possibility of machines becoming so real as to be able to love like human beings, the film is very sentimental and it takes some elements from the "Pinocchio" story .