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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. "

Steven Spielberg

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" This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally. "

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" My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom. "

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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 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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" 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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" I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. "

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

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

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" I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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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" People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning. "

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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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" I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working. "

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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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" 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. "

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" The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves. "

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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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" 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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" Lincoln believed in the American people. "

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" My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.' "

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

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" I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism. "

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