Steven Spielberg's latest project, The Fabelmans, is semi-autobiographical — focused on his adolescence and his parents' divorce. He jokingly refers to the film as '$40 million of therapy.'
Sometimes my dad would have reunions with other members of his fighter squadron and the Ford 90th Squadron, and they'd come over to the house sometimes, once every couple of years, and there'd be seven or eight guys together, and I'd be wandering in and out of my room or going into the kitchen, but I'd hear some of their stories and talking.
I knew, based on the stories my dad and his friends were telling about World War II, that there was no glory in war. It was ugly and it was cruel. It was visually devastating. And so I thought someday if I ever do make a war movie for real, it's got to be something that tells the truth about what those experiences had been for those young 17-, 18-, 19-year-old boys storming Omaha Beach, let's say.
That's when I realized, that if I'm going to tell the story, it can't be a glorification of war. It's just going to have to be the low down, dirty truth of what it was like for these young boys.Saving Private Ryan, and I got to know Steve really well. He became a consultant with me because he had spent the time to interview veterans that hit that beach at 6:30 a.m. on June 6, 1944. And he had interviewed dozens of those guys in the first wave.
Steven Spielberg speaks onstage in 2017 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Awards in Hollywood, Calif.Steven Spielberg speaks onstage in 2017 at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Awards in Hollywood, Calif.because of the violence It was DreamWorks money, and I was kind of convinced that it was going to lose its shirt, that every single dollar we poured intoand the movie cost, but the movie then cost $59 million — shot in '97, came out in '98. I just wanted to tell the truth and I didn't think anyone would see that film. And I was absolutely surprised that so many people around the world did go to see it.
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