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" I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China. "

Steven Spielberg

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" People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times. "

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" I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style. "

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" Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted. "

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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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" When I grow up, I still want to be a director. "

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" I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters. "

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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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" 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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" I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it. "

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" 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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" Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend. "

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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 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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" I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up. "

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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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" I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. "

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" I dream for a living. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction. "

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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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" In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible. "

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" I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter. "

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" I am a very impatient director. "

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" Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs. "

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" Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made. "

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" As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world. "

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" I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them. "

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