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" Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs. "
Steven Spielberg
Jobs
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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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" When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education. "
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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. "
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" In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible. "
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" People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning. "
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" I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday. "
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" I've always been interested in UFOs. "
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" When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with. "
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" My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice. "
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" There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. "
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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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" I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids. "
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" For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive. "
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Everybody
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" 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'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. "
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" I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids. "
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Home
Kids
" This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally. "
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" 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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" Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV. "
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Love
TV
Television
" I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans. "
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" It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me. "
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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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" The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first 'Jurassic Park,' which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That's the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D. "
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" I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history. "
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" I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both. "
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" Lincoln believed in the American people. "
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