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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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" 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. "

Steven Spielberg

Better

You

War

" 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. "

" Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me. "

Steven Spielberg

Need

My Life

" The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. "

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

" One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible. "

" I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back. "

Steven Spielberg

Light

Think

" 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. "

" Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. "

" The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first 'Jurassic Park,' which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That's the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D. "

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

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

" 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. "

" You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting. "

" I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday. "

" 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. "

" I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction. "

" Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way. "

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

" You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make. "

" I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find. "

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

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

" 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. "

Steven Spielberg

Friend

Remember

" 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. "

" Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? "

" 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. "