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" I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting. "

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" In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era. "

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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. "

Steven Spielberg

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" 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. "

" The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal. "

" I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about. "

" One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details. "

" 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. "

" Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong. "

" I dream for a living. "

" Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. "

" History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time. "

" Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous. "

" I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. "

" I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make. "

" When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set. "

Steven Spielberg

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" My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman. "

" I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before. "

" If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government. "

" 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. "

" Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. "

" My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style. "

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