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" In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era. "

Steven Spielberg

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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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" Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about. "

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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 have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both. "

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" When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews. "

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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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" History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time. "

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" 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. "

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" 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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" I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies. "

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" 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. "

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" I'm not really interested in making money. "

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" I am a very impatient director. "

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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. "

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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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" Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. "

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" I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up. "

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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. "

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" When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself. "

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Surround Yourself

" We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up. "

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" I dream for a living. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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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