Steven Spielberg

You know, it's interesting that you frame it that way because Disclosure Day, one of the big themes, if I may say so, is about faith.

Does God love us?

Does he love only us?

And it's not just about believers, but it's also about faith in something higher than yourself.

It's about faith in humanity and the ability of other people to deal with difficult circumstances.

You could have just made a movie about aliens.

You could have made a fun summer blockbuster.

And I wonder why you chose to engage with that theme specifically.

I just feel, I felt that this was an opportunity to talk about, you know, the loss of community and therefore the loss of human connection.

This film is more about humanity.

Mm-hmm.

and the things that divide us and what could be occurring that possibly could bring us a little closer together.

Such as aliens being real.

Well, such as realizing that the thing that we need to preserve in our society more than anything else, which is something which I believe is as fragile as democracy, is empathy.

And that our two characters, Joshua O'Connor plays Daniel Kellner and Emily Blunt plays Margaret Fairchild, there is a very large emphasis put on their superpowers.

How do you know that?

And their superpowers are not being able to fly.

No, of course not.

Their superpowers are really being able to look at somebody, and in six seconds, you know that person intimately.

It's crazy.