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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 have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor. "

Steven Spielberg

Horse

Natural Beauty

War

" There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul. "

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

" I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them. "

Steven Spielberg

Writing

I Can

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

" I am a very impatient director. "

Steven Spielberg

Impatient

Very

" I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games. "

" I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make. "

" I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter. "

" I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it. "

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

" There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about. "

" I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision. "

" I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. "

Steven Spielberg

Storytelling

Stories

" You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change. "

" I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans. "

" 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. "

" I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera. "

Steven Spielberg

Just

Film

" You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know. "

" One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry. "

" I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters. "

Steven Spielberg

Need

Moral

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

" The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck. "

" 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. "

" My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.' "

Steven Spielberg

Park

Saturday

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

" When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education. "

" Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. "

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

" I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up. "