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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.

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

Wherever you are, I will find you and I will bring you home

The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.

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

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

It [science fiction] really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

I am a very impatient director.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.

This is reality, Greg.-Elliot from E.T.

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

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic.

My dad took me to my first movie.

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.

She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.

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.

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.

I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

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

I dream for a living.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

An animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.

What kind of a horse?"
"A miraculous kind of horse

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray.

Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.

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

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.

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.

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

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

Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.

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

Actors just need each other to act together.

When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.

My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.

I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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

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

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.

I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.

I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.

All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.

Kurosawa is the pictorial Shakespeare of our time.

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

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.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.

I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.

I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.

The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.

I'm not really interested in making money.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.

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.

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

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.

I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. You're allowed to be.

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.

Money to me is not a factor in my life.

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.

I've always been interested in UFOs.

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.

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.

I think all directors should be animators ...

He never gave up. And he does that for us