{"id":3153,"date":"2011-06-14T22:38:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T02:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=3153"},"modified":"2011-06-14T22:38:05","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T02:38:05","slug":"this-made-me-feel-sad-for-steven-spielberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/14\/this-made-me-feel-sad-for-steven-spielberg\/","title":{"rendered":"This made me feel sad for Steven Spielberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg were <a href=\"http:\/\/popwatch.ew.com\/2011\/06\/09\/this-weeks-cover-j-j-abrams-steven-spielberg-super-8\/\">interviewed<\/a> about <em>Super 8<\/em>  in the June 17 issue of <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>, and when Spielberg was asked, &#8220;If you were starting out today, with a shot at directing a franchise, which one would it be?,&#8221; here&#8217;s what he had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I first started making movies, the only franchise I cared about and wanted to be a part of was James Bond. When I started out as a TV director, my pie-in-the-sky dream was to make a little movie that would get some notoriety, and then [the late Bond series producer] Cubby Broccoli would call me and ask me to direct the next James Bond picture. But I could never get Cubby Broccoli to hire me&#8212;and now, sadly, they cant afford me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me get this straight. Steven Spielberg, one of the richest and most powerful men in the world, won&#8217;t be able to make a childhood dream come true &#8230; because they won&#8217;t PAY him enough.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something extremely&#8212;and perversely&#8212;sad about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg were interviewed about Super 8 in the June 17 issue of Entertainment Weekly, and when Spielberg was asked, &#8220;If you were starting out today, with a shot at directing a franchise, which one would it be?,&#8221; here&#8217;s what he had to say: When I first started making movies, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[88,89],"class_list":["post-3153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movies","tag-steven-spielberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}