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" I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. "

Steven Spielberg

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

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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'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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" I dream for a living. "

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" Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else. "

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" I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back. "

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" Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true. "

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

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" I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting. "

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" My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice. "

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

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" I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show. "

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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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" 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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" There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal. "

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" And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director. "

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" It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about. "

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" A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values. "

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" When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with. "

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" When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about. "

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

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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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" I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker. "

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