Cathy Young notes that a quote attributed to Steven Spielberg that has the director saying meeting Fidel Castro was “the most important eight hours of my life” is, in fact, a fake. According to Young, the quote originated in the Cuban press and then was picked up by Western news media.
Unfortunately, Spielberg’s quote last summer that, “I am willing to give up some of my personal freedoms in order to stop 9/11 from ever happening again,” does not appear to be fake.