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

Steven Spielberg

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" 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. "

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

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" I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up. "

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" My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do. "

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

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" When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself. "

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" I've always been interested in UFOs. "

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

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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. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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

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" There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him. "

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

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" All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives. "

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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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" 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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" History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time. "

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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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