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

Steven Spielberg

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Steven Spielberg
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 18
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Steven Allan Spielberg
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I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
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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 very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.
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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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The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.
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One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
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I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.
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The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
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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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From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.
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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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You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.
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I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.
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Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.
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Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
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Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
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Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
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Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.
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The person I enjoy working for more than anyone else is George Lucas. He's the best boss I ever had because he's the most talented boss I ever had.
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I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.
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