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Apr 25, 2023

# ‘I Do Not Believe in Censorship.’ Steven Spielberg Calls For Preserving Art in Its Original Form

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Steven Spielberg speaks onstage during the 2023 TIME100 Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 25, 2023 in New York City.

Steven Spielberg speaks onstage during the 2023 TIME100 Summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 25, 2023 in New York City. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for TIME

Steven Spielberg says art should not be revised after it is put out in the world to reflect changing political views—or even a creator’s own changing perspective. 

“For me, it’s sacrosanct … I do not believe in censorship that way,” the Oscar-winning director told executive chairman and former TIME editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal at the [TIME100 Summit](https://time100summit.com/) on Tuesday. 

Reflecting on his own decision to retroactively replace guns with walkie talkies in his 1982 film _E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial_, Spielberg calls it an error, though he says he was initially sensitive to the fact that a scene showed federal agents approaching a bunch of children with firearms exposed. 


“That was a mistake; I never should have done that because _E.T._ is a product of its era,” he says. “No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are either voluntarily or being forced to adhere to.” 

Spielberg feels the same about art more broadly. Asked about the [removal of language considered offensive](https://time.com/6256980/roald-dahl-censorship-debate/) from the latest editions of Roald Dahl childhood favorites such as _Charlie and the Chocolate Factory_, he says, “Nobody should ever take the chocolate out of Willy Wonka, and they shouldn’t take the chocolate or the vanilla or any other flavor out of anything that’s been written.” In the newest editions of Dahl’s books, portions were rewritten to remove descriptions of characters as “fat”, “crazy” and “ugly.” 

Over his illustrious decadeslong career, Spielberg’s work has spanned multiple genres, from the sci-fi marvel _E.T._ to the shark thriller _Jaws_. He poignantly documented the Holocaust in _Schindler’s List_ and explored the expansive world of dinosaurs in _Jurassic Park._ His films have earned him three Oscars; two for directing and one for Best Picture. 

It’s no surprise then, that as a child, Spielberg was used to dropping one hobby for another. He had stints with geology (“I would break open rocks”) as well as collecting comic books, trying out musical instruments, and making little animations. “I would take a school book, animate each page and then riffle them with my thumb,” he says. “I got in trouble in class because that’s what I did all day in school.” Eventually, Spielberg fell into television and film. His father was a television repairman, so he was exposed to it at an early age; their family supposedly had the first TV on the block.

Spielberg hasn’t made a film in every genre just yet, pointing to Westerns as one kind of film he has not explored. He ponders making one before quickly pulling back: “Don’t send me scripts!” 

Spielberg’s [2022 film _The Fabelmans_](https://time.com/6234045/steven-spielberg-interview-the-fabelmans/#:~:text=If%20you%27ve%20seen%20even,some%20sense%20of%20who%20this) marks the director’s first try at semi-autobiographical storytelling. The movie follows his journey as a child, growing as a filmmaker and wrestling with family secrets. That includes learning as a 16-year-old that his mother was in love with a close family friend, whom he regarded as an uncle. 

“It was really scary because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to take my private life into the public but then I looked at the calendar and said I’m 76-years-old, if not now, when?” he says. 

When history is written about his expansive body of work, Spielberg hopes people most remember him by three films: _E.T., Schindler’s List_, and _The Fabelmans._ 

When it comes to his own television consumption, Spielberg is just like the rest of us. He’s hooked on the second season of _White Lotus_ and has keenly been [keeping up with ](https://time.com/6273720/succession-season-4-episode-5-recap/)[_Succession_](https://time.com/6273720/succession-season-4-episode-5-recap/). Spielberg, too, is mourning the [death of media mogul Logan Roy](https://time.com/6270134/succession-logan-death-power-rankings/). “I miss him. I’m sorry he died but after two episodes post-mortem, I can safely say the kids are carrying the show themselves.”



## Transcript

Welcome. Thank you. Nice to be here. Where the first of the morning for the first morning. You were you spoke at our 75th Anniversary times 75th Anniversary at. We're at our hundredth, that's incorrect. You yeah, very special part of the family. I feel like I'm part of the family. You've been, you've been on the cover six times by my count seven if you count the shark account to shark. If I can out this truck, big time I was going to ask Jess, ask you all a question. I have its early. So I have an easy question. How many people in the audience have seen in a Steven Spielberg film? Actual. Thank you.

I think what's incredible is I don't think there's another filmmaker on the planet that would be unanimous. You know, and what strikes me? In addition to your talent obviously is your range, you know, you've done everything, you've done Thrillers and histories and dramas and and Fantasies and animations and musicals, is there anything? Is there a genre you're wary of, is there something you haven't conquered? You know, I don't know where that came from. I don't know where it comes from. I know that I've had ever since I was a little kid, I never held an interest for very long. I'd always find something else.

Didn't the Portofino, engage my attention and and I would drop one little hobby for another. So all through my childhood, I kept switching and finding things until I found filmmaking in 8. Mm, that was just saying that I really settled on as a youngster before that I was all over the map and you always ask me if I would, I loved geology. So, I used to break up with rocks and find quartz. And another time I collected comic books and another time, you know, I was just a hint into musical instruments and And make a little animations. You know, when my school books you take a school book and you animated each page.

Then you're ripping them with your thumb. You know I got in trouble in class cuz that's what I did all day in school was just a cute little card anywhere. Yeah. But I don't know, the reason I am so excited my choices. I know that the sum of the filmmakers I admire like William Wyler, you know, and David lean they each of their films is unlike their last is there an area you you haven't done or you feel, you haven't conquered or or not your favorite or truck. Never been a western. And that's a good idea yet. I was raised in the southwest in Arizona. So, in a way, my life was like a western and seen all the great Western's out there.

Don't send me script still sell me. Western I really done and I don't really dislike Project based on Jean or that I haven't done yet. It's just, you know, something comes along and it's just grabbed my attention. Are there looking back at at, at your body of work? I know. I feel are their films. You would at it that you would looking back at them. Something you would have done differently as sad as an editor. I feel that way about some cover, sometime covers, not yours, but is, is there a sense that I know at one point, you took some guns out of e.t. and then regretted it that way. You back that was a mistake.

I never should have done that because ET is a product of its era and it it's not no film should be revised based on the lenses. We now are either voluntarily or being forced to peer through, but ET was a film that I was sensitive to the fact that the that the federal agents were approaching a bunch of kids with their firearms exposed. And I thought I would change the guns into walkie talkies, but ET was in that was because yours are gone by and I and I have changed my own views. I should never have messed with the archive of my own work and I don't recommend anybody really do that. Your Fillmore movies are a kind of measuring, it's sort of a sign posted where we were when we made them.

And what with the world was like what the world was receiving, when we got those stories out there. So I really regret having you feel that way about this is such a current topic across literature and art in general taking certain language out of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is, is this something is this of a feeling you have a cross across the world of art that we shouldn't apply today's standards to yesterday's work? Nobody should ever tempted to take the chocolate out of Willy Wonka ever. You know, and they shouldn't take the chocolate or the vanilla or any other flavor out of anything that has been written.

It is, it is absolutely for me, it is sacrosanct. It's, it's something that is our history. It's our cultural heritage warts and all Yeah, I do not believe in censorship that way. Let's talk about the movies about the theatrical experience. Something you've spoken out about, are you optimistic about the theatrical experience? I know you. You is a wonderful clip of you at the Oscars saying the Tom Cruise you you know, Maverick save you save the movies. Yeah. I think what I was saying. How much does there were a number of other movies at the box office after the pandemic but Thomas movie came out and it was a real sort of blast from the past and it was appealing to an older audience.

The new Top Gun and out a younger audience, but it got everybody. And it was really a, an explosion of voluntary attendance for an epic event that Tom had produced created and start in the conceived of. And and I thought it really did put us back on the map. Meaning it show that audiences were willing to not wait for it. Come on streaming, but would slap themselves out to a theater? Because you know, being here in this Gathering and being in a play on Broadway or be a rock concert. You know, we're we're, we're social creatures, all of us are and to be denied, the chance to find common ground. And we may not agree on everything, but we may all agree on a comedy or drama or something, to scare us, makes us cream and you find a communion in the movie theater, between a lot of like-minded people.

And that's the only place that happens and when that gets denied to us and we're told to watch things in our homes are on our devices, it's just no longer. Would I call a theatrical experience. The time agreed. Does it mean this is there a d? Is this a try? Is that still important? When we look back covid coming out of you know where in this streaming World we're all in our living room. I think there's a I think there's a series of films started coming out in 2021. They started bringing the audience back to feeders when people came to see you know, a big and these are branded films. He's a huge eye peas.

What's what's difficult? And what is scary is that audiences are not rushing back to see, middle-range movies with adult themes, even comedies today, they're still referring to watch those on streaming platforms. And the end when that starts coming back to the movie business will be healthy again, that mid-range level of movie hasn't yet brought adult audiences kids are not coming out yet in the numbers that we need to say we're back in Peak health and dies. Auto older demographic, that's a great box office and Elvis between an older demographic. Yeah, your hide, who are you watching? Who are the filmmakers emerging filmmakers running note of optimism, who are, who are you seeing out there that are the next Spielberg.

Scorsese's never looked at it that way because I really look at it as you know who is daring to Buck the convention and really tell stories in a language that they may have found it. I mean that those are the kind of movies are really excite me. I know one of them, one of my favorite Filmmakers today is Jordan Peele, because because he has found a way to take a popular concept, right? From the culture, and give it to Jordan Peele spin, kind of like the peel off the Rhine and you find a, a really original thought, inside every single one of his films and I think that's really the hope for the future.

You, you're watching some television. I, I, I know you said, Stephanie is The Sopranos during the pandemic. If I saw the whole thing over again, my company, amblin Entertainment Television on TV, that I bought, when he was working on the team that invented the first commercial, computer in 1950, he would repair TV steps. We were the first house on the Block to have television and we didn't have one TV. We have 30 broken TVs in our house and you should see the fabled in the background. You see all these broken TVs against the wall and that's what my dad did. So I was, I was supposed to be at a very early age, what are you watching that right now?

Well, I'm watching the last season. The White Lotus for the second time. And I'm watching, certainly watching succession. I miss him. I'm sorry, he died. Yeah. But but but after two episodes post-mortem I can safely say, the kids are, carrying the show themselves. We got good news. It's amazing. See if it takes like a scene where they're all reading their fathers obituaries. That the reviews are in I want to talk about AI cuz you made the film 20 years ago. Dystopian humanoids, taking control of Manhattan underwater civilization ending in there. We are at this crazy moment with a i and chat CPT and there are people now really have been 4 years warning about what you I guess.

It was a warning. Maybe it was just a film. But you this this new technology has real dangerous. And you you depicted in 20-plus years ago or are you What's the warning was a awarding? Are you an optimist about AI or a pessimist what? I've always been sort of an optimist about what we the human race or able to create the good rebel to create a Jurassic Park? The whole theme of Jurassic Park, was we stood on the shoulders of giants to create something that everybody else has thought up before us. And now, we've Unleashed on the world and starting to chase us and eat us. And and so I guess I'm optimistic about about incentive and and and engineering and finding new ways of telling our stories and finding cures for diseases and and trying to fix the broken shattered and firemen.

But at the same time, there's a price to pay and a 1,000 1,000 1,000, a shinai have to explain this and what takes money was Stanley? Kubrick's idea he had written Based on the story by Ian Watson called called supertoys last all summer long and Stanley. And I were very good friends and Stanley try to persuade me to direct it and I wouldn't do it because I wanted him to direct it. When he passed away the family, give me the rights and I made it in his name using his entire story. I just, I just wrote the script based on his treatment is 90 page treatment. It was really his vision for a dystopian future.

And what Stanley was trying to say was, if we invent a better mousetrap and might be better to leave the mice out of it and let the traffic this to the Future. And, you know, the lot of people saw the movie thought that those supermarkets were aliens. So, I got blamed for bring the aliens back into it, they weren't aliens, they were a highly evolved. Sent them to you being created eons Ago by human beings, where she was being slow longer exist. And I think that was Stanley's idea that the future was going to be taking over eventually, buy our own. Creations, there would be no room for us to speak to you.

It was a really cool idea films like Munich semitism, a powerful theme throughout are you? You know we're in this terrible world where so much hate and antisemitism on the rise again are you do you see this as a calling that you were going to continue on this path writing about filming around the theme of of anti-Semitism and and I know you've got some Sunday should work in this area foundation work on it. I mean you know You can't talk about it to send to him without talking about racism and xenophobia. You have to bring it to you. It's very important to bring it all together. I mean between August 2021 and 22 anti-Semitism in this country Rose 36%, which is the highest year 2 year jump since they started keeping records in 1979 and I've never seen it in my lifetime as bad as I'm experiencing it now.

And and so our foundation does address that we do a lot of Consciousness awareness and we're writing all kinds of kind of curriculum for schools, try to get to the classrooms because that's where you have to start get the truck, the classroom and the best way to fight anti-Semitism and racism is simply by keeping it in conversation because the worst thing that can happen if we stop talking about it and the end the end and then it was a doubles down after that. The way it is to keep it always in car. Station between us. We were talking backstage. You also a project. Now where you are getting people of very different perspectives to come together for conversation.

We take graduating high school, students basically send them to other parts of the country to meet and stay with people that may have different views on life politics, whatever, at the end. And it's an exercise in in training us to listen, because they interview each other, it's not about stating who you are and what you believe in. It's about being curious about the other person who has been very successful, is that a semen in your films location? A sort of cooperation, wildest dreams. What are? What are you looking forward to seeing this hour and in the movies, is there, what's going to be like to watch in Indiana Jones you that you aren't directing?

Well, I just had to experience two nights ago, along with James Mangold, the director and everybody loves the movie. It's really, really a good Indiana Jones film. I'm really proud of what Jim has done with it and when the lights came up, I stood up and I just turned in the group. I just said, Damn, I thought I was the only one that knew how to make one of these. When preparing for this, I watched some old interviews you've done over the decades red, what we've written about you over the decades. But in in 1995, Barbara, Walters asked you, I could do worse than to ask Barbara, Walters question, what are the films that you that are Steven Spielberg when, when when history is written, I can tell you what you said, then if you don't remember, but I'm sure it's been 30 plus years.

Oh, my goodness, I have apps. I remember the remember sitting with Barbara who I knew in the real world, but I don't remember what I said, ET and Schindler's List, okay? Because, you know, I've always wondered all of my movies are personal. I don't know, any filmmaker who doesn't make a personal movie, even if it's about robots or dinosaurs, or even if it's something complete, Remove from Marc Pino realities. It comes out in the wash, everything we are and what we're all about wines up inside her movies. But sometimes, there are certain films that are intended to be almost as I wasn't sure if I wanted to go to take my private life and go public with it.

Right? But then I looked at the calendar and I said I'm Seventy-Six years old, if not now when you are not out of time but we are on the stableman Beautiful film at you. We look forward to having you back for 125th anniversary. I'll be here. All right. Thank you. Steven Spielberg. Drive-thru Starbucks.

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