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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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. "

" I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel. "

" I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor. "

" Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom. "

" I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids. "

" Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else. "

" My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice. "

" 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. "

" Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV. "

Steven Spielberg

Love

Television

" 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. "

" My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky. "

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

Steven Spielberg

Talent

Skill

" I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both. "

" Money to me is not a factor in my life. "

" 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. "

Steven Spielberg

Need

My Life

" 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. "

" There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul. "

" Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make. "

" My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "