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" The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. "

Steven Spielberg

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story. "

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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 feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me. "

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

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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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" 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 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. "

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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 like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it! "

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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 love history, so I do a lot of movies about history. "

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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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" I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter. "

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" Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces. "

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" I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them. "

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" If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world. "

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" A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values. "

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