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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. "
Steven Spielberg
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" I've always been interested in UFOs. "
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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 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. "
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" I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them. "
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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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" Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV. "
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" I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back. "
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" People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning. "
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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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" I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would. "
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" 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. "
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" Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. "
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" I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction. "
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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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" When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it. "
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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. "
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" I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times. "
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" I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor. "
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