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.

In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran...

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

Now, from the beginning...