By Steven Spielberg, on Norman Rockwell

“Rockwell in a way pushed a benign but important agenda of a kind of community, a kind of civic responsibility, and patriotism. And he did this in one frame, with one image. And he did it, like Rashomon, from many different approaches to the same theme, which was tolerance of the community, of each other, of parents, of presidents, of Boy Scouts, of our veterans, and of soldiers fighting abroad. He was really one of the greatest Americans that this country has produced since, maybe, Samuel Clemens.”
-Steven Spielberg