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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. (Steven Spielberg)
Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else. View quote
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And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director. View quote
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I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids. View quote
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Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong. View quote
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One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry. View quote
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I am a very impatient director. View quote
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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. View quote
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There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. View quote
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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. View quote
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Lincoln believed in the American people. (Steven Spielberg)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV. View quote
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Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs. View quote
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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. View quote
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My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky. View quote
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I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single movie as if it was made by a different director, because I'm very conscious of not wanting to impose a consistent style on subject matter that is not necessarily suited to that style. So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. View quote
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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. (Steven Spielberg)
I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated. View quote
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I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel. View quote
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The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal. View quote
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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. View quote
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