One of the most renowned directors the world has ever seen or known Steven Spielberg has given the movie industry the dream to make it real. With his legacy of amazing movies that gave directors to go beyond direction; yesterday he received a Lifetime Achievement award at Berlin Film Festival.
Today, Steven Spielberg made a poignant reference to the Holocaust and the country’s ongoing attempt to confront its own past in the name of healing. Spielberg’s speech drew a standing ovation for around a dozen minutes but to hear his most moving comments, one should watch the video.
“This honor has special meaning for me because I’m a Jewish director,” Spielberg said, referring to his coming-of-age autobiographical film The Fabelmans, for which he is also nominated for an Oscar.
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“I would like to believe that this is a small moment in a much larger ongoing effort to heal the broken places in history, what the Jews call Tikkun Olam, the repair and restoration of the world.”(The Deadline)
“I founded the Shoah Foundation because I am convinced that what the historian Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi wrote is true: the opposite of justice is not injustice. The opposite of justice is forgetfulness. Reconciliation is only possible when we remember what happened. Germany has long been a key partner in the work of the Shoah Foundation.” (The Deadline)
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This quest is our best hope of finding meaning in life. And that starts with remembering.”
By the way, the director of Pulp Fiction also said that he intends to keep making films for as long as possible (his dad made it to the age of 103, so the genes are there) and that he intends to return to the scarier films he did direct earlier in his career.