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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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" 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

You

Change

I Am

" I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would. "

" I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera. "

" The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago. "

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

Steven Spielberg

Storytelling

Stories

" I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985. "

" 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. "

" I'm not really interested in making money. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision. "

" There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul. "

" I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time. "

" I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel. "

" 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

Park

Saturday

" For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. "

" Lincoln believed in the American people. "

" 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. "

" I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up. "

" 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 dream for a living. "

" My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience. "

Steven Spielberg

Took

Earth

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

" I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all. "

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

" 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 believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated. "

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

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

" I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard. "

Steven Spielberg

Catch

Divorce