Who did he know? Sid Sheinberg, the President of Universal? The same person who told him he had a choice of working as a film director of finishing UCLA?
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In the mid 60s very few film directors came out of film school. You either worked your way up the ladder or you knew someone. Spielberg's dad knew someone in some middle of the line function at Universal. He met Scheiberg later on.