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" 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. "

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

" I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history. "

" I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies. "

" 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. "

" You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make. "

" I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China. "

" Money to me is not a factor in my life. "

" Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible. "

" 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. "

" I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show. "

" I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. "

" I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild. "

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

" There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him. "

" 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 think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not. "

" There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true. "

" 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 want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction. "

" The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other. "

" There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. "

" If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government. "

" I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up. "

" When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about. "

" The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. "