Courtesy of Entertainment Weekly.

Steven Spielberg’s new movie The Post is all about investigative journalism in the times of Watergate and the Vietnam War. The renowned director has recently spoke about the issues in the film, saying that investigative journalists are heroes.

“I reacted to the script for the first time with a great deal of sort of enlightened frustration, obviously based on living in the current climate, atmosphere, and looking back and realizing that atmosphere had once before existed,” Spielberg says to Entertainment Weekly. “I’ve always believed in the power of the press. I’ve always believed the press, what they call the Fourth Estate, is a critical leveler of the playing field in terms of checks and balancing the truth with the lie. As I get older, my Indiana Jones becomes investigative journalists.”

He laughs at his reference to his own work. “They become my real heroes.”

“It was just the kind of cast that’s a dream cast,” he says. “And I really encouraged electric, overlapping dialogue. I wanted everybody to certainly stick with the script, but turn it into kind of like a documentary, where it felt a little bit like a docu-drama… to feel like we were eavesdropping on real life.”