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" All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. "

" All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility. "

" A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version. "

" A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values. "

" And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director. "

" As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world. "

" Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way. "

" Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original. "

" Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science. "

" Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted. "

" Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous. "

" Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. "

" Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. "

" Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'. "

" Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made. "

" Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry. "

" Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs. "

" Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. "

" Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me. "

" For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. "

" For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive. "

" From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel. "

" History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time. "

" I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting. "

" I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "

" I am a very impatient director. "

" I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated. "

" I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard. "

" I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all. "

" I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid. "

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