Steven Spielberg is 'very happy' he turned down the Harry Potter franchise, thanks for asking
esque crisis of whether to move for work or stay for family in the early 2000s, when he was offered“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,” he said. “Kate [Capshaw] and I started raising a family and we started having children.
The choice I had to make was 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.”He continued: “There were several films I chose not to make. I chose to turn down the firstto 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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