Steven Spielberg Biography

His father, who worked in the computer industry in the late 1940s and early 1950s, was often forced to relocate the family to follow promising job leads. "Just as I'd become accustomed to a school and a teacher and a best friend," Spielberg related in Time, "the FOR SALE sign would dig into the front lawn and we'd be packing and off to some other state. I've often considered Arizona, where I was from [age] nine to sixteen, my real home. For a kid, home is where you have best friends and your first car, and your first kiss; it's where you do your worst stuff and get your best grades." The Spielberg family moved from Phoenix, Arizona, to northern California when Steven was sixteen, and soon after, his parents separated. "They hung in there to protect us until we were old enough," the filmmaker wrote in Time. "But I don't think they were aware of how acutely we were aware of their unhappiness.... When the separation finally came, we were no better off for having waited six years for it to occur.