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" I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. "
Steven Spielberg
Always
Threatened
Israel
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" When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with. "
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Story
Tell
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Stunt
Time
You
" The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust. "
Steven Spielberg
Holocaust
Truth
Internet
" Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make. "
Steven Spielberg
I See
Head
Sky
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Need
Moral
Go
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Never
Story
Beginning
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
First
Doing
Look
" There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. "
Steven Spielberg
Bring
Motivated
Nothing
" One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details. "
Steven Spielberg
Yourself
Details
Out
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Giving
Parents
Gratitude
" I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. "
Steven Spielberg
Got
Ordinary
People
" Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. "
Steven Spielberg
Historical
Because
List
" A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version. "
Steven Spielberg
Kids
Only
Lot
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
War
Director
Find
" People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times. "
Steven Spielberg
People
Me
Love
" My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky. "
Steven Spielberg
Looking
Heart
Sky
" I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting. "
Steven Spielberg
Story
Good
Go
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Writing
Me
I Can
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Love
People
Noise
" Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. "
Steven Spielberg
Matter
Time
Movie
" Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV. "
Steven Spielberg
Love
TV
Television
" I've always been interested in UFOs. "
Steven Spielberg
Always
Interested
Been
" 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
Me
You
" My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues. "
Steven Spielberg
Lot
Issues
Been
" Making a movie where the central character is a horse was a challenge. Because I'm scared of riding. I was thrown as a kid. 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Horse
Challenge
Character
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Years
Values
Well
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
You
Film
Movies
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Feeling
Camera
Nervous
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Responsible
Story
Crime
" I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids. "
Steven Spielberg
Children
Herd
Love