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" I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "
Steven Spielberg
American
Involved
Jew
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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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Noise
" Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. "
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Skill
More
" There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul. "
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People
Bound
" 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. "
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Responsibility
Together
" I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking. "
Steven Spielberg
Favorite
Editing
Love
" 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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Love
Book
Day
" I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies. "
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Schedule
Show
Want
" 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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Capture
Performance
Technology
" I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers. "
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Different
Own
Teachers
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Together
Family
Growing
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Better
You
War
" Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV. "
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Love
TV
Television
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Dream
See
Month
" I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand. "
Steven Spielberg
Heroes
Boots
War
" When I grow up, I still want to be a director. "
Steven Spielberg
Director
Want
Grow Up
" 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
" You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting. "
Steven Spielberg
Attitude
First
Start
" 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
" 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
" I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids. "
Steven Spielberg
Children
Herd
Love
" Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. "
Steven Spielberg
Escape
Chance
Inside
" In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor. "
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War
Director
Find
" 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. "
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Technology
Audience
Story
" 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
" Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry. "
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Old
Older
Think
" I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans. "
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How
Survive
Resourceful
" I've always been interested in UFOs. "
Steven Spielberg
Always
Interested
Been
" I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker. "
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Out
I Quit
Quit