Steven Spielberg reflects on choosing family over directing 'Harry Potter': A 'ripping' experience
foxnews.comHollywood legend Steven Spielberg said he sacrificed contributing a major part to the "Harry Potter" franchise by turning down the chance to direct "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in London so he could be with family near Los Angeles.
The 76-year-old director told director S.S. Rajamouli about the decision during a chat last Thursday. "The personal meaning about [how the conflict between] art and family will tear you in half happened to me later, after I had already established myself as a filmmaker, as a working director," he said. "Kate [Capshaw] and I started raising a family and we started having children.The choice I had to make was taking a job that would move me to another country for four or five months where I wouldn’t see my family every day…That was a ripping kind of experience," he added.
Spielberg said he chose to not make several films because of the divide it could cause, adding, "I chose to turn down the first ‘Harry Potter’ to basically spend that next year and a half with my family, my young kids growing up.
So I’d sacrificed a great franchise, which today looking back I’m very happy to have done, to be with my family." The film that launched a wildly successful stream of successors based on the popular children's novels by J.K.
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