The "Secret Dossier" received two nominations for the Oscar, including "Best Film". The legendary director Steven Spielberg met with Telenedely to tell about his film, which was released in Ukrainian rolling last week.

You can not escape Steven Spielberg, who shot Jurassic Park, and Stephen Spielberg, who staged the political drama The Secret Dossier, are two different people?.

I do not know who I really am. I think my wife and children have an opinion on this matter. My audience can also say who I am, and they do it with pleasure! (Laughs). ) I believe that everything depends on what scenario gets to me. I do not like making movies on the go or asking the actors to improvise. It is very important to have a strong history and understanding, why this story needs to be told. The tree can not grow beautiful and healthy if it does not have a solid root. And this root is not me, Steven Spielberg, but a quality script.

Usually, viewers watched your movies to escape from the harsh reality. But now you have removed the "Secret Dossier" - this bastion fell.

Forgive me, but we can not escape from what is happening in our world! (Laughs). ) However, this year will be another my movie "The first player to prepare" - here it will help you really relax!.

The "Secret Dossier" refers to the events that occurred in the United States in the 1970s. You were not thirty then. What kind of person were you then?.

I was not very interested in politics. I was immersed in the shooting of television projects, my career was just beginning. I was a movie-film and a TV-golik: I did not read newspapers, did not watch news.

All that I did then - constantly went to the movies, wrote scripts and looked for money on my first film. He lived in a creative vacuum, from which he came out only when people with whom I was friends at the university began to die in the Vietnam War.

Tell people to think It's told that you took on the "Secret Dossier", barely read the script. And this despite the fact that you were already filming "The First Player to Be Prepared" ... I cleared my schedule to focus on these two projects. I felt that the "Secret Dossier" is a great story about a great woman. Do not disclose to Catherine Graham those secret documents from the Pentagon, in the future, journalists would hardly have had the courage to tell the story of Watergate.

She was the first who made the press strong and free. Yes, Graham had the status of the publisher of the Washington Post, but male members of the board of directors looked through it, even if they were sitting opposite. But she challenged the system, despite the almost 100% likelihood of losing.

In your opinion, today things are not better with the freedom of the press than in the 1970s?.

Much worse. The press these days is trying to convince people that it does not spread fake news, but is telling the truth. Never before has the world seen such a smokescreen that is launched between people and the media. In history we observed this, there was even such a thing as "alternative facts".

But the scale is incomparable. Even for me, what is happening now is a novelty, and I have long been living in this land. The situation is deadlocked, and I do not see any light at the end of the tunnel. But I get a powerful incentive to work more and make films that should make people think about what is happening.

I helped Nixon with employment Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks freed time in their busy schedule and joined the film because they are your friends?.

No no! They agreed because the best actors on the role of Catherine Graham and Ben Bradley can not be found.

In the "Secret Dossier" the role of President Nixon is "performed" by Richard Nixon himself - a record of his voice and footage of the chronicle from the White House. Why did you apply such a move?.

Because Nixon needed a job, and I decided to help him with finding work! I think this is the best job he ever had (laughs). In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, we were granted access to Nixon's records, where he spoke directly about both the Washington Post and all those who were involved in that investigation. I wanted the audience to hear his real voice. As a result, we built the interior of the White House and shot him an actor so that you could not see the face, leaving only gestures. A real man from 1971 appeared in our cast!.

In the mornings I'm awakened by a mundra In one of the interviews you said that fear is your personal fuel, it motivates like nothing else. Explain this thought.

So it is: if I'm too self-confident, I will not have new ideas. It's another matter - when I'm a little nervous, when I'm not in a "balance" with myself. Do you know this feeling when you grab for any twig to stay?.

Do you start to wave your arms like a windmill, just not to fall? Or struggling to keep from drowning? This kind of mandrake wakes me up in the mornings and makes me run to the shooting. And so it was throughout his career!.

Four Oscar figurines, almost $ 9 billion collected by your films at the box office, international recognition - and you still doubt yourself?.

Yes, and in this picture, the jitters were also felt, because it was important to do everything right. Firstly, before that, I had never worked with Meryl Streep.

Secondly, I have never before had Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in the frame at the same time. And finally, I had to tell a story that not only makes me think: God, did the pendulum swing back?.

With the fears of director Spielberg, we figured out, and what can scare a person Steven Spielberg?.

I have a very long list of phobias! (Laughs). ) And if to be serious, then I worry about the conflict that has ripened between the US and North Korea. It can lead to irreparable consequences.