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" 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. "

Steven Spielberg

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

" 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. "

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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. "

" People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times. "

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" There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. "

" 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. "

" The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts. "

" The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. "

" 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. "

" I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me. "

Steven Spielberg

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" I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top. "

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

" In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II. "

" Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. "

" If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded. "

" I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985. "

" When I grow up, I still want to be a director. "

" 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. "

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" In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor. "

" My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky. "