Hollywood Tales

“The biggest change when Spielberg got involved [with Schindler’s List] was the liquidation-of-the-ghetto sequence, which in my original script was about two or three pages and which finally ended up being about thirty pages. Spielberg said, ‘I want to follow everybody we’ve met up to this point through this sequence’… As we got closer to filming, one of the survivors might talk to Spielberg about something or there might be something in the book that he particularly responded to, and that would go in. I think his changes were good… His great strength is really being able to visually interpret a script.”

 — Steve Zaillian (Awakenings, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Schindler’s List)