Under årens gång har Steven Spielberg erbjudits en mängd olika uppdrag som regissör och trots att han varit tvungen att tacka nej till många av dem, har han lyckats göra sitt namn känt över hela världen. Ett av de erbjudanden har tvingades tacka nej till var faktiskt Harry Potter och när han intervjuades av Reliance Entertainment berättade han vad det egentligen var som fick honom att avböja denna ikoniska filmserie. Han ville helt enkelt vara en närvarande pappa vilket känns mer än rimligt, om du frågar oss.
The personal meaning about [how the conflict between] art and family will tear you in half happened to me later, after I had already established myself as a filmmaker, as a working director. Kate [Capshaw] and I started raising a family and we started having children. [...] The choice I had to make in taking a job that would move me to another country for four or five months where I wouldn't see my family every day... That was a ripping kind of experience.[...] There were several films I chose not to make. I chose to turn down the first 'Harry Potter' to basically spend that next year and a half with my family, my young kids growing up. So I'd sacrificed a great franchise, which today looking back I'm very happy to have done, to be with my family.
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