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" The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other. "
Steven Spielberg
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" There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true. "
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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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" Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people. "
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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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" I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. "
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" Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry. "
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" History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time. "
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" In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible. "
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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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" Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed. "
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" From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel. "
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" I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before. "
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" Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look. "
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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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" Money to me is not a factor in my life. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. "
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" I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. "
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Always
Threatened
Israel
" 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 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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" When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with. "
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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 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. "
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" Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs. "
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" I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies. "
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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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Never
Choices
" Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone. "
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