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" Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong. "

Steven Spielberg

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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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" 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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" 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 feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China. "

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" I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all. "

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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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" 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. "

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" Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. "

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" 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. "

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" One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry. "

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" 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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" I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans. "

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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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" 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. "

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