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" 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. "

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" 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

Love

" I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find. "

" 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. "

" The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck. "

" I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top. "

" My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience. "

Steven Spielberg

Took

Earth

" I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera. "

Steven Spielberg

Just

Film

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

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

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

" Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV. "

Steven Spielberg

Love

Television

" I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. "

Steven Spielberg

Storytelling

Stories

" I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story. "

" I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. The minute anybody presumes that they are heroes, they get their boots taken away from them and buried in the sand. "

" I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild. "

" As a Jew I am aware of how important the existence of Israel is for the survival of us all. And because I am proud of being Jewish, I am worried by the growing anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in the world. "

" 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. "

Steven Spielberg

Unique

Time

" I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games. "

" I've always been interested in UFOs. "

" 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

" Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science. "

" My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set. "

Steven Spielberg

My Own

Feel

" I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me. "

Steven Spielberg

Know

Feel

" 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. "

" In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible. "

" All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. "

" The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. "