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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. "

Steven Spielberg

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" I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up. "

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" The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation. "

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" For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive. "

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" I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it. "

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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 believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated. "

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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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" I've always been interested in UFOs. "

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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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" If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer. "

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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 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. "

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" I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film. "

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" We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life. "

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

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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 didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all. "

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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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" I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking. "

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

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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'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. "

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

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" 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. "

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