This intriguing factlet came up in the press conference for Clint Eastwood‘s Hereafter, which Steven Spielberg co-produced.
It seems that whenever a creative meeting is about to take place about a project he’s involved in, Spielberg’s people alert the attendees, “By the way, he likes to take his meetings with the lights off.”
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It’s not because he’s hiding anything, lookswise, by the way; the guy looks good enough for daylight (though it’s not necessarily something for ET to phone home about).
So what could be the motivation for making meetings into a sort of intellectual seance?
Maybe it makes people feel freer about exchanging ideas?
Or less self-conscious about what they’re wearing?
Or maybe he wants to leave open the option of not showing up.