TIME's new cover: Steven Spielberg opens up about the story he waited 60 years to tell. If you’ve seen even just one Spielberg movie in the past 50-odd years, you have some sense of who this child grew up to be. And when you see his new film, "The Fabelmans" (in theaters Nov. 23), a work of astonishing vividness that’s drawn from his own family’s story, you’ll know even more. Movies have been around for roughly 130 years; Spielberg’s career has covered more than a third of that, and counting. Yet "The Fabelmans" hardly feels like a late-career movie. It’s more of an intimate reckoning, both joyous and unapologetically direct, a jetway for a new beginning. No living filmmaker can match his devotion to craftsmanship, to finding new ways of showing us things we think we’ve seen a million times before. As an account of Spielberg’s roots, "The Fabelmans," which he co-wrote with his frequent collaborator Tony Kushner, is more immediate than any written memoir could be. Read the full cover story at the link in our bio. Photographs by Tania Franco Klein (@taniafrancoklein) for TIME