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" 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. "

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

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" Lincoln believed in the American people. "

" I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids. "

" 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. "

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

" I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor. "

" I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time. "

" In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible. "

" The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II. "

" There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. "

" 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 once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans. "

" 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. "

" I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time. "

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

" Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did. "

" 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. "

" I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen. "

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

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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. "

" 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. "