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" I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt. "
Steven Spielberg
Adore
T-Shirt
Simply
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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'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. "
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Someone
" For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive. "
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" The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. "
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" I dream for a living. "
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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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You
" 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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" You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know. "
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" 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. "
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Come
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" Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'. "
Steven Spielberg
Education
First
Line
" 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
" The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other. "
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Other
Nothing
Each
" I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting. "
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Good
Go
" I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday. "
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Day
Than
" Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. "
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Failure
Success
Single
" Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years. "
Steven Spielberg
America
Social Media
History
" 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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Seeing
Process
Love
" I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try. "
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Think
Today
Work
" I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. "
Steven Spielberg
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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. "
Steven Spielberg
Time
New
Know
" A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version. "
Steven Spielberg
Kids
Only
Lot
" 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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World
Child
Thought
" There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him. "
Steven Spielberg
Think
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Nobody
" I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it. "
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Movies
Out
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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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Air Force
World
War
" When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with. "
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Story
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" My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.' "
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Saturday
Up
" If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world. "
Steven Spielberg
Way
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World
" I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. "
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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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Camera
Filmmaking
Technology