Steven Spielberg

When war comes, two things happen – profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who’s never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don’t look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

For one thing, I don’t think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.