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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. "
Steven Spielberg
Different
Own
Teachers
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" I'm not really interested in making money. "
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Making Money
Money
Interested
" Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong. "
Steven Spielberg
Most
Production
Wrong
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Back
Come
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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Horse
Challenge
Character
" Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else. "
Steven Spielberg
Moments
Leaving
Someone
" 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 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Story
Good
Go
" I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand. "
Steven Spielberg
Heroes
Boots
War
" You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it! "
Steven Spielberg
Make
Your
You
" Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV. "
Steven Spielberg
Love
TV
Television
" A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version. "
Steven Spielberg
Kids
Only
Lot
" My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice. "
Steven Spielberg
Sacrifice
Father
Veterans
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
I Am
Great
Great Man
" Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. "
Steven Spielberg
Matter
Time
Movie
" When I grow up, I still want to be a director. "
Steven Spielberg
Director
Want
Grow Up
" I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me. "
Steven Spielberg
Know
Feel
Me
" There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him. "
Steven Spielberg
Think
Him
Nobody
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Looking
Heart
Sky
" I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history. "
Steven Spielberg
History
Movies
Love
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Mystery
Her
Kind
" The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation. "
Steven Spielberg
Giving
Parents
Gratitude
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Technology
Audience
Story
" I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working. "
Steven Spielberg
Together
Family
Growing
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Happy
Relationship
Father
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Best
Walk
Technology
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
My Own
Youth
Values
" For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. "
Steven Spielberg
One Thing
Think
Hero
" If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government. "
Steven Spielberg
Government
I Believe
Support
" I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker. "
Steven Spielberg
Out
I Quit
Quit
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Responsible
Story
Crime