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" I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story. "
Steven Spielberg
Enough
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" Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me. "
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" The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other. "
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" The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust. "
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" I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids. "
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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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" If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer. "
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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. "
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