Steve Ahlman

Life is about protecting children from monsters of your own creation.

How do you protect kids from the monster that is capitalism, from the monster that is exploitation, from the monster that is playing good?

The dinosaurs in that movie

just represent some man's misplaced wonder.

And you have to protect kids from that.

And then what are the lessons that you learn?

You are in a dinosaur movie, but you're also in a dinosaur movie about trying to preserve the innocence of children.

And you get all the thrills and all the feeling of we might not be able to get there and the bad guys get spit in the face and you have corporate espionage and all of that stuff.

If you have to commit to that, though, in every single Spielberg movie, you commit to that.

I'm typically hyper-proposed here, but even Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones and all of that stuff is keeping evil out of the hands of people that want to exploit it, excuse me, keeping beauty out of the evil people that want to exploit it, whether it be the Ark of the Covenant, the children that are being exploited in Temple of Doom, or the Holy Grail.

This movie, while it has all the trappings of a Spielberg movie, doesn't have any of the stuff in the middle that really made the movie special.

It is legitimately like,

40-some-odd rewrites on the script.

Like, no, no, no, no, no, no.

They... He developed 42 different drafts.

Jesus.

42 different drafts.

So the...

And you can tell.

Yeah.