In the wake of the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October, acclaimed Hollywood director Steven Spielberg believes now, more than ever, is when people must confront the alarming rise in hateful ideologies.
Spielberg's
Academy Award-winning film about the Holocaust, "Schindler's List," is
returning to select theaters this week in honor of its 25th anniversary.
It's a story that still resonates today, he said in an interview with
"NBC Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt
"I think there is more at stake today than even back then," Spielberg said, referring to when the film was released.
"When
collective hate organizes and gets industrialized, then genocide
follows," said Spielberg. "We have to take it more seriously today than I
think we have had to take it in a generation," he said during a time of
heightened identity politics and the massacre of 11 people at the Tree
of Life synagogue in which the suspected shooter left a trail of anti-Semitic posts online.eference point. I wanted it to feel real."
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