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" From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel. "
Steven Spielberg
My Own
Youth
Values
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" I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker. "
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Quit
" I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans. "
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How
Survive
Resourceful
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Technology
Audience
Story
" My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues. "
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Lot
Issues
Been
" 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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Horse
Natural Beauty
War
" I'm not really interested in making money. "
Steven Spielberg
Making Money
Money
Interested
" I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. "
Steven Spielberg
Storytelling
Stories
Like
" For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. "
Steven Spielberg
One Thing
Think
Hero
" A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values. "
Steven Spielberg
Years
Values
Well
" The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal. "
Steven Spielberg
Bones
War
Story
" 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
" 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
" I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives. "
Steven Spielberg
Shy
Myself
Momentum
" I've always been interested in UFOs. "
Steven Spielberg
Always
Interested
Been
" The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other. "
Steven Spielberg
Other
Nothing
Each
" Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous. "
Steven Spielberg
Movies
Hollywood
Other
" I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I'm very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. "
Steven Spielberg
Eye
My Own
Style
" I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids. "
Steven Spielberg
Neighborhood
Home
Kids
" The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. "
Steven Spielberg
Balance
Create
Opportunity
" 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
" Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. "
Steven Spielberg
Failure
Success
Single
" Lincoln believed in the American people. "
Steven Spielberg
American
American People
People
" Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made. "
Steven Spielberg
Happy
Relationship
Father
" 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
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Together
Family
Growing
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Life
Nothing
Seeing
" I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies. "
Steven Spielberg
Schedule
Show
Want
" It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about. "
Steven Spielberg
Family
Worth
Passionate
" Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else. "
Steven Spielberg
Moments
Leaving
Someone
" History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time. "
Steven Spielberg
Worlds
New
History