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

Steven Spielberg

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

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

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" I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back. "

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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 love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking. "

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

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

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" If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government. "

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" I dream for a living. "

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" I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me. "

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" 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. "

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" All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me. "

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" People often tell me how much they love the digital skies that we obviously painted for 'War Horse.' Well, there's not a single sky that we put in through special effects. The skies you see in the movie are the skies that we experienced - but it was definitely challenging at times. "

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" I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show. "

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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 have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both. "

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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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" Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV. "

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" When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with. "

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" 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. "

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

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