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" Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'. "
Steven Spielberg
Education
First
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" I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me. "
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" The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust. "
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" I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt. "
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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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" History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time. "
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" The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. "
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" I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story. "
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" 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. "
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" My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience. "
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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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" One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details. "
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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 think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild. "
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" Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. "
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" 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. "
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Story
" Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. "
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Because
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" 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. "
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Sometimes
True
Public
" I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history. "
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" The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time. "
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Time
Me
" I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism. "
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Own
Think
Born
" If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer. "
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Would
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" Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend. "
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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 don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand. "
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" I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working. "
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" 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. "
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" There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. "
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" So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it. "
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" I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans. "
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