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" 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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" When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them. "

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" The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust. "

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" 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. "

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" When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education. "

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" I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "

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" 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. "

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" I've always been interested in UFOs. "

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" I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers. "

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" I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives. "

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

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" I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working. "

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" I am a very impatient director. "

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

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" 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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" The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation. "

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" When I grow up, I still want to be a director. "

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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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" 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. "

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" The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II. "

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" 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. "

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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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" I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top. "

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

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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 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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