When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, 'Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?' You just say yes.
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Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
You know that you're part of a Spielberg production when you've got some aliens involved, but you really know when you're sitting there at a table read, and they say, 'Steven really wanted it this way.'
Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.
The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.
I don't know if I wanted to be Spielberg; I would never say that.
If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.
How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.
If Steven Spielberg brought me a movie four hours long and said, 'It has to go out this way,' I guarantee you that's the way it would go out.
When Steven Spielberg thinks you're the one, then I'll do anything. If you want me to put a dead horse on my head, I'll do it.
When Steven Spielberg comes calling, it behooves you to seriously consider it.