Steven Spielberg

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Fresh Air · Steven Spielberg · 3 Jul 2026 podcast

financial backers who believed in myself and David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg when we first formed DreamWorks.

It was DreamWorks money.

And I was kind of convinced that it was going to lose its shirt, that every single dollar we poured into Ryan, the movie cost, which now is a bargain, but the movie then cost $59 million to make in 19, shot in 97, came out in 98.

I just wanted to tell the truth, and I didn't think anyone would see that film.

And I was absolutely surprised that so many people around the world did go to see it.

I was afraid that the first people who saw it would just say, it's too bloody, don't put yourself through it.

Well, the first thing was I didn't shoot it all in a couple of days.

I mean, obviously, it took 25 days.

It's a 25-minute sequence, and it took 25 days to shoot 25 minutes.

So I was only shooting a minute a day.

And because I hadn't storyboarded anything, but I knew what the mission was.

They had to get up the Vierville Draw to get to the top of Omaha Beach.

So I decided to shoot the entire sequence in continuity.

So I began in the Higgins Boats.

And then we got them out of the Higgins boats when they came under an intense fire.

And we got them behind the Belgian gates, those tank traps, those big crosses in the sand.

And we just, in real time, taking one little segment at a time, we progressed up to beach until on day 25 we got to the top.

And so, you know...

I love improvising scenes.

I mean, I love improvising shots.

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