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" I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard. "
Steven Spielberg
Catch
Divorce
Me
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" I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it. "
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" I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not. "
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" 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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" Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs. "
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" I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find. "
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" The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II. "
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" 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. "
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" The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck. "
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Process
Love
" 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. "
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Dreams
You
Imagination
" 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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Sometimes
True
Public
" I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it. "
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" Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science. "
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" All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. "
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New Year's
Person
" I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. "
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Always
Threatened
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" 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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Find
" The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts. "
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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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" I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid. "
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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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" 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. "
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I Believe
Support
" My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman. "
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Head
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" I'm not really interested in making money. "
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" I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top. "
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Great
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" Money to me is not a factor in my life. "
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Money
" My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom. "
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Energy
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