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" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
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" I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games. "
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" Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous. "
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" I've always been interested in UFOs. "
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" Money to me is not a factor in my life. "
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" I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China. "
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" It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about. "
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" There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. "
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" 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. "
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" Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? "
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" I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction. "
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Science Fiction
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" Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. "
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Chance
Inside
" Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true. "
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" I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times. "
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" For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. "
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" 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. "
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" I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday. "
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