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" I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism. "

Steven Spielberg

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Think

Born

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" 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. "

" I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday. "

" Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. "

" I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before. "

" So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it. "

" I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up. "

" The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. "

" I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel. "

" When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.' "

Steven Spielberg

Park

Saturday

" My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom. "

" I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it. "

" 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

" Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era. "

" 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. "

" I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard. "

Steven Spielberg

Catch

Divorce

" 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. "

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

" A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version. "

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

" There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about. "

" If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world. "

Steven Spielberg

Way

World

" Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted. "