By Steven Spielberg, on Norman Rockwell
“I’ve wanted to own a lot of Rockwell’s Boy Scout paintings, because the Boy Scouts was a very important part of my life growing up. The Boy Scouts gave me the opportunity to discover filmmaking. When I went for a photography merit badge and made a little 8-millimeter movie, the Boy Scouts in my troop, 294, Scottsdale, Arizona, liked the movie and made so much noise laughing and clapping that I got the virus, thinking I’ve got to do this the rest of my life. The Boy Scouts taught me a lot of very useful skills. I’m sure I’ve forgotten how to milk a cow, but I certainly still know how to tie knots, which helps with seven children growing up in your house. Rockwell saw the Boy Scouts as young men on the home front who could do good deeds and would be there at the ready to help you in any situation.”
-Steven Spielberg