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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. "
Steven Spielberg
Mystery
Her
Kind
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" 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. "
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Noise
" Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted. "
Steven Spielberg
Air Force
World
War
" If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government. "
Steven Spielberg
Government
I Believe
Support
" 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
" It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me. "
Steven Spielberg
Exercise
Perspective
Movies
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
America
Social Media
History
" Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look. "
Steven Spielberg
Look
Where
Experience
" Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous. "
Steven Spielberg
Movies
Hollywood
Other
" There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. "
Steven Spielberg
Responsibility
Censorship
Good
" I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids. "
Steven Spielberg
Neighborhood
Home
Kids
" I dream for a living. "
Steven Spielberg
Living
I Dream
Dream
" The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts. "
Steven Spielberg
Only
Directing
Good
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Sometimes
True
Public
" 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
" Lincoln believed in the American people. "
Steven Spielberg
American
American People
People
" I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild. "
Steven Spielberg
Run
Unique
Style
" I've always been interested in UFOs. "
Steven Spielberg
Always
Interested
Been
" I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded. "
Steven Spielberg
Successful
Challenge
Ego
" The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago. "
Steven Spielberg
Different
Today
Years
" I'm not really interested in making money. "
Steven Spielberg
Making Money
Money
Interested
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Attitude
First
Start
" I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all. "
Steven Spielberg
Older
Now
Career
" Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend. "
Steven Spielberg
Well
Friend
Your
" Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way. "
Steven Spielberg
Technology
Audience
Story
" I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would. "
Steven Spielberg
Thought
Future
Great
" 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 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
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
Seeing
Process
Love
" 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. "
Steven Spielberg
My Own
Youth
Values