Steven Spielberg is the undisputed king of creating epic cinematic events. But when it comes to the kind of motion pictures he personally loves, there's just one movie he has publicly compared to a miracle – 1962's "Lawrence of Arabia." "Certainly, 'Lawrence of Arabia' was the film that set me on my journey. I look at that picture as a major miracle," he told the American Film Institute . "It just uplifted me." Spielberg later explained that it made him want to be a director, and left him completely shell-shocked after his first time seeing it. "I couldn't really comprehend the enormity of the experience. So I wasn't really able to digest it in one sitting. I actually walked out of the theater stunned and speechless," he said in "Lawrence of Arabia: A Conversation with Steven Spielberg."

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