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" For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. "
Steven Spielberg
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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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" I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel. "
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" I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try. "
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" The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot. "
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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 love history, so I do a lot of movies about history. "
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" I dream for a living. "
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" I'm not really interested in making money. "
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" Money to me is not a factor in my life. "
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" I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would. "
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" 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. "
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" If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world. "
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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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" 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 love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen. "
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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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" My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.' "
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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 don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies. "
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" The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up. "
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" When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself. "
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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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" Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true. "
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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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" 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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