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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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" When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them. "

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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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Storytelling

Stories

" I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision. "

" The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. "

" 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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Life

You

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

" I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film. "

" I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history. "

" When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with. "

" 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. "

" 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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Writing

I Can

" Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. "

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Talent

Skill

" When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set. "

Steven Spielberg

My Own

Feel

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as a kid. 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans. "

" You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it! "

" You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting. "

" 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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Need

Moral

" One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. "

" I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker. "

" 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. "

" I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies. "

" I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. "