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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. "

Steven Spielberg

First

Doing

Look

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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. "

" Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science. "

" 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. "

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

Steven Spielberg

Way

World

" Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous. "

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

" When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set. "

Steven Spielberg

My Own

Feel

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

" Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me. "

Steven Spielberg

Need

My Life

" 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. "

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

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

" I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times. "

" Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view. "

Steven Spielberg

Talent

Skill

" 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. "

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

" I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies. "

" 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

" 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. "

Steven Spielberg

People

Love

" 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. "

" My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it. "

Steven Spielberg

Anger

History

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about. "

" When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about. "

" 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. "