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" I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild. "

Steven Spielberg

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" I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I'm very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. "

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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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" Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. "

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" I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show. "

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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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" 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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" I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers. "

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" The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust. "

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" 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. "

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

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" My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience. "

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

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" Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way. "

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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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" The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time. "

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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 am a very impatient director. "

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" 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. "

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" The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other. "

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" I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me. "

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

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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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" Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong. "

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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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" The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago. "

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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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" 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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" 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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