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" The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts. "

Steven Spielberg

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" I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting. "

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

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" I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back. "

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

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" So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it. "

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" There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. "

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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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" Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry. "

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" I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it. "

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" The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive. "

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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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" The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time. "

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" When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education. "

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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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" Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. "

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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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" I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt. "

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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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" 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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