Steven Spielberg

Leo, grinds tape.

Sometimes I have to, especially in this later area of my career, I've got to sometimes go to an actor and say, you know, if you want another take, you can ask me for another take just because I'm expressing joy that I love what you just did.

It doesn't mean that there's something I haven't seen yet that you know you haven't given yet.

So I have to go to the actors and say, don't be intimidated.

because I made E.T., tell me that you, and your childhood was informed by it, tell me if you think you have more to give.

Don't take cut, print as an answer.

I don't know anything about their working relationship, but they were both... They were not hive minds.

They were not hive-minded.

They were single-minded visionaries who I'm sure had alternative points of view and common points of view.

But whatever the magic was between Clark and Kubrick, man, we're so grateful to both of them.

I have, I, I, I have a deep, uh, partnership with Tony Kushner and I have an equally deep partnership with David Koepp.

And it has been just, uh, just, I'm just lucky that they're on this planet to, to tell stories with me.

Well, it depends.

I mean, both, they're two completely different people, number one.

Tony Kushner is a Tony Award winning Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and an Academy, multiple Academy Award nominated screenwriter.

And David Koepp is one of the most commercial screenwriters in Hollywood history.

Yeah.

And they both have different ways of working, which I really love.

And I've got to be the flexible one here.

I have to be the chameleon that doesn't – I'm not asking them to conform to the way I work.