Steven Spielberg's 2002 interview with the BBC revealed his intentions behind the Minority Report. In the interview, Spielberg talks about how he views science fiction as a warning to audiences about potential societal and technological challenges without seeming boring.
"Science fiction loves to warn... It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them." [3]
"What interested me was this idea of how much of our personal freedoms we would be willing to give up for the sake of security."[3]
Spielberg is trying to create a film that entertains while using the dystopian setting and the concept of "PreCrime" to challenge audiences to think about the ethical issues of surveillance and predictive technologies.