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" Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? "

Steven Spielberg

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" I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all. "

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

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Science Fiction

" The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal. "

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

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" My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues. "

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" It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me. "

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" Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people. "

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" You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make. "

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" In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era. "

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" I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera. "

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

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

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

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" I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film. "

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" 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. "

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Surround Yourself

" 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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" 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. "

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" Lincoln believed in the American people. "

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American People

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor. "

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" 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. "

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" I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not. "

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