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" I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would. "
Steven Spielberg
Thought
Future
Great
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" I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. "
Steven Spielberg
Generation
History
Today
" Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. "
Steven Spielberg
Talent
Skill
More
" I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up. "
Steven Spielberg
Growing
Father
Growing Up
" I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera. "
Steven Spielberg
Feeling
Camera
Nervous
" Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV. "
Steven Spielberg
Love
TV
Television
" I've always been interested in UFOs. "
Steven Spielberg
Always
Interested
Been
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Love
Book
Day
" You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change. "
Steven Spielberg
You
Change
I Am
" 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
" The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust. "
Steven Spielberg
Holocaust
Truth
Internet
" I am a very impatient director. "
Steven Spielberg
Impatient
Very
Am
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Seeing
Process
Love
" 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
" If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer. "
Steven Spielberg
Want
Would
Film
" I dream for a living. "
Steven Spielberg
Living
I Dream
Dream
" 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 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Life
Me
You
" I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans. "
Steven Spielberg
How
Survive
Resourceful
" The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts. "
Steven Spielberg
Only
Directing
Good
" The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. "
Steven Spielberg
Balance
Create
Opportunity
" People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning. "
Steven Spielberg
Never
Story
Beginning
" Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look. "
Steven Spielberg
Look
Where
Experience
" I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded. "
Steven Spielberg
Successful
Challenge
Ego
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Sun
Time
Look
" I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday. "
Steven Spielberg
Sunday
Day
Than
" 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
Good
Tell
" When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education. "
Steven Spielberg
Education
Born
Children
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Back
Come
People
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Time
New
Know
" I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction. "
Steven Spielberg
Science
Science Fiction
Want