Steven Spielberg

E.T.

phone home.

Indiana Jones.

That belongs in a museum.

Jurassic Park.

This week, he's got a new movie out, his 35th.

It's called Disclosure Day.

And it returns to questions that Steven Spielberg has picked at throughout his entire career.

Do aliens exist?

And if they do, how will we react to them?

Steven Spielberg is here with me today to talk about Disclosure Day, his fascination with aliens, and what he is watching on Instagram.

It's Sunday, June 14th.

Steven Spielberg, welcome to The Daily.

Thank you so much for joining us.

So congratulations on your new film, Disclosure Day.

I won't give too much away, but it is a movie about the government's efforts to hide information about aliens from the public.

It was inspired, as I understand it, by reporting, at least in part, in the New York Times about a secret government program that studied what people might refer to as UFOs.

Everybody and their dentist must be pitching you a movie idea.

So what was it about this article in this moment that made you think, I have got to make a movie about this?

Well, long before that story, and it was a great story in 2017, I believe, there had been so many more videos backing up eyewitness testimony and creating more credibility among the witness base.