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" I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans. "
Steven Spielberg
How
Survive
Resourceful
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" I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction. "
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" If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world. "
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World
" 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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World
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" The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other. "
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Nothing
Each
" Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. "
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Success
Single
" I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism. "
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Own
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Born
" Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'. "
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First
Line
" Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone. "
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Walk
Technology
" I'm not really interested in making money. "
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Making Money
Money
Interested
" 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've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. "
Steven Spielberg
Got
Ordinary
People
" I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel. "
Steven Spielberg
Age
Sort
Myself
" 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
" I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies. "
Steven Spielberg
Schedule
Show
Want
" I dream for a living. "
Steven Spielberg
Living
I Dream
Dream
" 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
" The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts. "
Steven Spielberg
Only
Directing
Good
" My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice. "
Steven Spielberg
Sacrifice
Father
Veterans
" When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with. "
Steven Spielberg
Live
Story
Tell
" I've always been interested in UFOs. "
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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
" So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it. "
Steven Spielberg
You
Time
Style
" In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible. "
Steven Spielberg
High School
Horrible
School
" I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision. "
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Always
Father
Someone
" 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. "
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Sometimes
True
Public
" 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
" All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility. "
Steven Spielberg
Constitution
Responsibility
Together
" 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. "
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Capture
Performance
Technology
" Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous. "
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Hollywood
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" There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul. "
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Soul
People
Bound