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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. "

Steven Spielberg

Look

Where

Experience

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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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Park

Saturday

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

" 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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Unique

Time

" 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 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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Need

Moral

" 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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People

Love

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

" 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've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision. "

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

" 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. "

" You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know. "

" The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other. "

" I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them. "

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Writing

I Can

" 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. "

" I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me. "

Steven Spielberg

Know

Feel

" There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him. "

" When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them. "

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

" 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. "

Steven Spielberg

Catch

Divorce

" I dream for a living. "

" 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. "

" I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China. "

" 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. "

Steven Spielberg

Story

Good

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

Steven Spielberg

My Own

Feel

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