Steven Spielberg

Well, you know, the whole thing about shutting things down, you know, when I made Ready Player One, I had a great time making... Well, it was a hard movie to make, but I had a great time with the outcome of the movie in terms of what it said at the very end.

You know, after all this stuff, and the kids win the Oasis, they, you know, they get the Easter egg, and they're happily askance, kissing in a chair...

and the narrator comes over, and he says, and furthermore, they're going to close the Oasis two days a week so people can really connect with each other and get on with normal lives.

That was the whole reason I think I made that movie, to basically say that sometimes...

We have weekends.

Weekends, we're supposed to take our weekends off.

But there are no weekends in terms of the amount of demand on our time and our lives.

And demanding that we make our identities known and shared with strangers.

Why can't there be one or two days that we take off from that and get back down to having picnics outside somewhere?

My kids are going to hate me for that so much when they hear this, when they listen to this podcast.

And they hear that, say, Dad, you are a square.

Yeah, I read that too.

Holden would have been good for Floyd.

Floyd, that's what I was thinking too.

But Holden would have been like Janet Leigh in Psycho, you know what I'm saying?

He never reappears in the movie again, you know, and it would be sort of front-loading a movie that really needs to, you know, start with a clean slate.

That would have been interesting.

Now, where are these facts from?

Okay.

So will you wink at me if it's urban legend?