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During an appearance at the Time Magazine 100 Summit on Tuesday, legendary director Steven Spielberg spoke out against modern culture’s obsession with censorship.
Specifically discussing the epic film E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Spielberg said he should never have allowed the guns to be edited out of the movie, which was done in the 2002 version.
“That was a mistake,” he said of removing the guns from the film. “I never should have done that. E.T. is a product of its era.”
Spielberg continued, “No film should be revised based on the lenses we now are either voluntarily or being forced to peer through, but E.T. was a film that I was sensitive to the fact 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. That was because years had gone by and I had 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,” he added. “All our movies are a kind of a measuring or a signpost of where we were when we made them and what the world was like, what the world was receiving when we got those stories out there, so I really regret having done that.”
TIME Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal, the host of the event, asked Spielberg how he feels about people currently advocating for books like Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to be censored in order to avoid ruffling feathers in a highly-sensitive modern society.
The director responded, “For me, it is sacrosanct. It’s our history, it’s our cultural heritage. I do not believe in censorship in that way.”
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