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" For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive. "
Steven Spielberg
Most
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Who
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" When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about. "
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Job
Working
Sit
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Number
Name
Leadership
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Successful
Challenge
Ego
" All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility. "
Steven Spielberg
Constitution
Responsibility
Together
" I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild. "
Steven Spielberg
Run
Unique
Style
" When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education. "
Steven Spielberg
Education
Born
Children
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
First
Doing
Look
" You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know. "
Steven Spielberg
Dreams
You
Imagination
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Unique
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. "
Steven Spielberg
Own
Think
Born
" Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong. "
Steven Spielberg
Most
Production
Wrong
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Sometimes
True
Public
" Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. "
Steven Spielberg
Matter
Time
Movie
" When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself. "
Steven Spielberg
People
Surround Yourself
You
" It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal. "
Steven Spielberg
Mystery
Her
Kind
" My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice. "
Steven Spielberg
Sacrifice
Father
Veterans
" In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible. "
Steven Spielberg
High School
Horrible
School
" Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make. "
Steven Spielberg
I See
Head
Sky
" My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it. "
Steven Spielberg
Me
Anger
History
" One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details. "
Steven Spielberg
Yourself
Details
Out
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
People
Me
Love
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Feeling
Remember
True
" I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me. "
Steven Spielberg
Me
Life
Imagination
" The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. "
Steven Spielberg
Possible
Imagination
Far Away
" A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version. "
Steven Spielberg
Kids
Only
Lot
" I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me. "
Steven Spielberg
Know
Feel
Me
" I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera. "
Steven Spielberg
Feeling
Camera
Nervous
" I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times. "
Steven Spielberg
Laugh
World
Time
" You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change. "
Steven Spielberg
You
Change
I Am
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Never
Story
Beginning