American - Director | December 18, 1946 -
My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'
Steven Spielberg
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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.
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I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.
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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.
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I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.
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I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.
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I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
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Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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