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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. "
Steven Spielberg
Time
Chapter
Finish
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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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" 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. "
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My Life
Me
" A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values. "
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Values
Well
" Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong. "
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Production
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" I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel. "
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Sort
Myself
" Lincoln believed in the American people. "
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American
American People
People
" 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. "
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Challenge
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" I dream for a living. "
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I Dream
Dream
" For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. "
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Think
Hero
" I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top. "
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I Am
Great
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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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Find
" Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone. "
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Best
Walk
Technology
" I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen. "
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Love
People
Noise
" 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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Down
Way
War
" And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director. "
Steven Spielberg
Question
Never
Choices
" There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. "
Steven Spielberg
Bring
Motivated
Nothing
" So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it. "
Steven Spielberg
You
Time
Style
" 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
" Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'. "
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Education
First
Line
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Stunt
Time
You
" The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust. "
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Holocaust
Truth
Internet
" It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me. "
Steven Spielberg
Exercise
Perspective
Movies
" I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time. "
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Time
Film
Long
" All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility. "
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Constitution
Responsibility
Together
" In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible. "
Steven Spielberg
High School
Horrible
School
" I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history. "
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History
Movies
Love
" Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry. "
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Old
Older
Think
" I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction. "
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Science
Science Fiction
Want
" I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated. "
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Great
Believe
Clarity
" Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. "
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Escape
Chance
Inside