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" 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
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Month
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" One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry. "
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" I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction. "
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" The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation. "
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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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" For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive. "
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" I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it. "
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" I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt. "
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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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" Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. "
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" I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids. "
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" 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. "
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" I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated. "
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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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" My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky. "
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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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" 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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" Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry. "
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Older
Think
" 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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" 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. "
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" When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself. "
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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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" I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both. "
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" There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him. "
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" 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. "
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" The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot. "
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" I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985. "
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" 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. "
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Technology
" I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday. "
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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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