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" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Time
Film
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all. "
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" 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. "
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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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" When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education. "
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" 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. "
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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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Look
" The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal. "
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Story
" 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. "
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" As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world. "
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" Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make. "
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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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Exercise
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Movies
" I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera. "
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Just
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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 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. "
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" Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend. "
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Your
" There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him. "
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Think
Him
Nobody
" I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985. "
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World
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Thought
" I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild. "
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Run
Unique
Style
" I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters. "
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" Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? "
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Dollar
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" There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul. "
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" The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Lincoln believed in the American people. "
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" I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history. "
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