Spielberg: I got in trouble with several critics who didn't like that I shied away from the love story between Shug and Celie.

Spielberg: I really wanted my childhood to be sort of the pie-in-the-sky, Norman Rockwell American Dream.

Spielberg: And one day, my dad just broke down, and I never had seen my dad cry before.

Spielberg: It was literally the worst period of my entire life.

Now, from the beginning...

I've gone over it again and again and again in my head

We used to meet each other constantly once or twice a week.