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" I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded. "

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" 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 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. "

" I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid. "

Steven Spielberg

Life

You

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people. "

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

" There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true. "

" My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do. "

" You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Steven Spielberg

Unique

Time

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

" I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. "

" 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. "

" I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking. "

" 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. "

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

" I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera. "

Steven Spielberg

Just

Film

" In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible. "

" 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. "

" When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself. "

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

" 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. "

" I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera. "

" When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set. "

Steven Spielberg

My Own

Feel