Steven Spielberg‘s schedule is so busy, it often takes him years to watch one of his films.
“I’m always moving really fast, and I don’t look back a lot,” he said in a New York Times profile published Wednesday. “That’s why I don’t sit down and look at my movies on a movie screen after I’ve made them. Sometimes it’s years before I will even dare look at a movie again, and sometimes I’ll shut it off after five minutes.”
The iconic director, 71, whose film “Ready Player One” received rave reviews at SXSW Film Festival, has had some films in the past of a similar kid-friendly genre — including “The BFG” in 2016 and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” in 2008 — that critics considered “flops.”
But his enduring calendar is what’s kept him from “dwelling” on his hits and misses.
“I’m really too busy, both in my private life and in my professional life, to have a lot of time to dwell on success or failure,” he said.
With his eyes on the future, Spielberg told the Times that he’s looking to make films that are meant to do more than just entertain.
“Now I feel a deeper responsibility to tell stories that have some kind of social meaning,” he said. “If I have a choice between a movie that is 100 percent for the audience and a movie that says something about the past, I will always choose history over popular culture. Even with all the popcorn in a film like ‘Ready Player One,’ it does still have social meaning.”
“Ready Player One” hits theaters March 29 and stars Olivia Cooke and “Black Panther” star Letitia Wright.
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