Steven Spielberg

Were they honest?

Yeah, I think so, but they were intimidated.

It takes a lot of work to build a team that will be honest with you.

And that's why I've had the same people in my life for so many decades.

You have said, I believe, that one of the reasons that you wrote Disclosure Day is because you felt that this was the last shot you would have to get this story, to tell this story in a certain way or the right way.

Mm-hmm.

I wonder, given all of the movies that you have made, all of the things you have tried to tell us about ourselves and the society that we live in, is there something that you feel like you still want to say that you have not said yet?

Let me answer that question as honestly as I know how.

Until I find something that delights me and intrigues me and scares me,

I won't know what it is yet that I have to say until I discover it by jumping blind off a cliff.

which I do about every other film I jump into.

And that's when I figure out that I could use this as a vehicle, as a kind of medium to say something.

But I don't ever make a movie where I don't feel I have, every movie I made, I feel like I have something to say, but I really only know what,

That something is, once I blindly jump off the edge and I get myself very, very involved in that story, then it sometimes comes to me, sometimes it doesn't.

I'm curious about the audience.

What do you think about the ways that the audience has changed besides just attention spans?

Like, I am curious, do you think that audiences expect something different when they come to see a movie and how that changes your storytelling?

I don't think it changes the storytelling.

All I can do is tell the stories I know how to tell and hope there's an audience for them.

But I don't adjust myself to a new generation.