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SPIELBERG HOPES MOVIE CAN BREAK MID-EAST STALEMATE
Sun Dec 04 2005 08:29:34 ET

Steven Spielberg, IN ONLY INTERVIEW WORLDWIDE BEFORE 'MUNICH' RELEASE Discusses CONTROVERSIAL New Film to Open Dec. 23.

?There has never been an adequate tribute paid to the Israeli athletes who were murdered in ?72,? Spielberg says.

?I don?t think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today,? director Steven Spielberg tells TIME in an exclusive cover-story interview. ?But it?s certainly worth a try,? Spielberg says.

Since filming began in June, the movie (reported to cost around $70 million) ?has been surrounded by rumors, criticism, and suggestions that Spielberg was too pro-Israel to make a fair movie,? according to TIME.

"I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine," Spielberg says. "There's been a quagmire of blood for blood for many decades in that region. Where does it end? How can it end?"

The director tells TIMES he's very proud of the fact that MUNICH doesn't demonize either the Israeli or Palestinian side.

"We don't demonize our targets," Spielberg said. "They're individuals. They have families."

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