Steven Spielberg

And I just have seen this draining out of us, and I thought that I wanted to do a story about how to bring humanity together again.

You know, I understand that you're commenting on the divided political time that we live in.

It's not even a political time.

It's a divided social time.

Divided social time.

Has that affected you personally?

Have you lost relationships?

Are you making this in any way reflective of what you personally have struggled with as we have become more divided?

It's not that I've lost relationships.

I just...

I believe in people, and I believe in people who I don't agree with.

If we took two soccer teams, or they take it very seriously, you could have nothing but rivalry, and you could be hooligans against each other in loss or in victory.

But there are certain things you agree on.

The lager in the pub you drink after a game where you can bury your disagreements and just celebrate the fact that you're alive on the planet.

I mean, that is something that I'm missing today.

And arguably, I think I've heard you talk about movies this way.

Movies are something that obviously bring people together.

And so I wonder if that's sort of like if you're thinking not just about the themes of faith in your film and the importance of faith in terms of bringing people together, but the actual going to see a movie and losing yourself and forgetting what's going on in the outside world.

I feel like I see a bit of a through line here.

Yeah.