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" I'm not really interested in making money. "
Steven Spielberg
Making Money
Money
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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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" For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive. "
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" One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details. "
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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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" Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. "
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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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" There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him. "
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" I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking. "
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" 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
" 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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Property
Live
" The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II. "
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" 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. "
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" The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago. "
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Today
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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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Family
Growing
" I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try. "
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Work
" My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it. "
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Anger
History
" History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time. "
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New
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" I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives. "
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Myself
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" I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies. "
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Schedule
Show
Want
" A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version. "
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Only
Lot
" You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting. "
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First
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" Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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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" Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. "
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" You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change. "
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" Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? "
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" When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself. "
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