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I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.

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Steven Spielberg
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 18
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Cincinnati
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Steven Allan Spielberg
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I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.
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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.
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I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.
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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.
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I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.
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My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [...] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.
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I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.
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Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.
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Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
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