:13:00
at "1941 ", my comedy,
:13:02
even "Schindler's List",
which isn't a war film -
:13:06
I think the Holocaust
is in a category of its own.
:13:10
I've had windows into war
in many films I've directed.
:13:14
Little pockets, sequences,
a little bit like war,
:13:17
but never anything like this movie.
:13:20
I don't think I've ever done
anything closely resembling
:13:24
the war that we've attempted to
bring to life in Private Ryan.
:13:33
I have never seen anything close
to this movie for realism,
:13:38
for exactly what
the men I've interviewed
:13:42
over the past 30 years
on this battle
:13:46
have told me
about what happened.
:13:48
I wanna see plenty
of beach between men.
:13:51
We were on the landing craft
when the ramps came down.
:13:58
All I saw was the ramp go down
:14:01
and the first three rows
of soldiers get blown to bits.
:14:07
I realised this was
a very different movie
:14:10
than had been made before,
:14:12
just in the gritty
reality of the detail.
:14:15
Dog One exit - right here!
:14:18
We're in business!
:14:20
We all felt we were labouring
not just to get it right,
:14:25
but also to get it accurate.
:14:27
Despite how gruesome
and how painful.
:14:30
Spielberg makes you see
the consequences of war.
:14:35
He makes you look
at these young kids,
:14:38
the terror, the confusion,
the chaos, the noise.
:14:42
The heartbreak of these
young lives being stamped out.
:14:48
I was looking for realism.
:14:50
- He wants us to take the kids.
- We can't take the kids!
:14:54
I didn't want
to shoot the picture
:14:57
Iike a Hollywood production -
a gung-ho extravaganza.