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I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.
All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
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.
[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.
I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.
Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.
There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.
There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a man's soul.
The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.
I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
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 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.
My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.
I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
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'm not really interested in making money. That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal.
And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.
This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.
I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.
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 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.
Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.
It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
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.
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.
I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.
Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.
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.
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.
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.
My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'
The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.