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" My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.' "

Steven Spielberg

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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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" You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know. "

Steven Spielberg

" 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. "

Steven Spielberg

" If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer. "

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" People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning. "

Steven Spielberg

" I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. "

Steven Spielberg

" 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. "

Steven Spielberg

" Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original. "

Steven Spielberg

" I am a very impatient director. "

Steven Spielberg

" I've always been interested in UFOs. "

Steven Spielberg

" 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. "

Steven Spielberg

Surround Yourself

" 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. "

Steven Spielberg

" 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. "

Steven Spielberg

" I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. "

Steven Spielberg

" The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts. "

Steven Spielberg

" 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

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

Steven Spielberg

" I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters. "

Steven Spielberg

" Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. "

Steven Spielberg

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

Steven Spielberg

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

Steven Spielberg

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Steven Spielberg

" Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'. "

Steven Spielberg

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

Steven Spielberg

" I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids. "

Steven Spielberg

" A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version. "

Steven Spielberg

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

Steven Spielberg

" My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman. "

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