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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. "
Steven Spielberg
Way
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" I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it! "
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" Money to me is not a factor in my life. "
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" When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set. "
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" From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel. "
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" I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me. "
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" My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues. "
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" 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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" The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first 'Jurassic Park,' which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That's the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D. "
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" 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. "
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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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Way
War
" 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. "
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" It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal. "
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" Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did. "
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" We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life. "
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Life
Nothing
Seeing
" The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts. "
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Directing
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" I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up. "
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" 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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" Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. "
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Because
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" And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director. "
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Never
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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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" 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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" Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. "
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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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Time
Me
" If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer. "
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Would
Film
" You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make. "
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