We thought that our best hope of understanding and bringing justice to this immensely complicated person, was to depict him beginning, then conducting, then concluding a very, very complex action, which was the fight to pass the 13 th Amendment on the floor of the House of Representatives.” However, we also wanted to show that he was a man, not a monument. “We focused only on the last four months of Lincoln’s life,” says Director Steven Spielberg, “because we wanted to show Lincoln accomplishing something great, something monumental…and that was abolishing slavery and ending the Civil War. He once again collaborated with Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski and Production Designer Rick Carter, who brought in Set Decorator Jim Erickson SDSA and his team for an intimate, realistic and in-depth representation…a leap back in time, to 1865. Bearing that in mind, the choices Director Steven Spielberg made to bring about his depiction of the man and his times in the film LINCOLN were critical to an accurate and soulful re-creation. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, Lincoln’s choices during this critical moment changed the fate of generations to come.
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