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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. "

Steven Spielberg

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" I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it. "

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" When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews. "

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" Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people. "

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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" The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" I'm not really interested in making money. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as a kid. 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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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" I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday. "

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" I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time. "

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

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" I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style. "

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

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" I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back. "

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" The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust. "

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