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" If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer. "
Steven Spielberg
Want
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" All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. "
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" When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about. "
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" 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. "
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" There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him. "
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" I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me. "
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" 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. "
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" You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it! "
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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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" 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've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel. "
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Sort
Myself
" In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor. "
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" Lincoln believed in the American people. "
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American People
People
" I've always been interested in UFOs. "
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Always
Interested
Been
" I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild. "
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Run
Unique
Style
" It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about. "
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Family
Worth
Passionate
" 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. "
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Mystery
Her
Kind
" 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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Stunt
Time
You
" The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago. "
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Different
Today
Years
" I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. "
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Storytelling
Stories
Like
" A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values. "
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Years
Values
Well
" The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. "
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Possible
Imagination
Far Away
" 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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Sometimes
True
Public
" Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. "
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Failure
Success
Single
" I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter. "
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Finish
" 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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Love
" I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. "
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History
Today
" I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I'm very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. "
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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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" My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues. "
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