 Writer/director Menno Meyjes (qv) reports that before the script  was written, Steven Spielberg (qv)s Amblin company was interested  in the project. But Spielberg told Meyjes he couldnt bring himself  to help make a movie he thought would dishonor Holocaust survivors.  Nevertheless, he considered the script an excellent one and  encouraged the director to push for its realization, but without  Amblin.