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I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have enough time for my family or my friends. You could put that in the personal life category but it's all one category because I've got to balance my family.
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The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.
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All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
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The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.
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The 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.
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Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.
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I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy Kennedy had been with me since 1978. Janusz Kaminsky, my cinematographer, has made every movie with me since Schindler's List. Michael Kahn has cut every movie I've directed since 1976 when we made Close Encounters together. Rick Carter has done more than 15 of my directed films as a production designer.
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I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.
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Actors just need each other to act together.
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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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Movies principally require the best of everybody, all at the same time, being the best they can be. Not just like five people being the best they've ever been, and 10 people not being the best they could be. It's like if everybody is either doing their greatest work, or the whole house of cards falls apart.
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I had to get over my fear of running through the world naked and learn to say 'take me or leave me.'
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I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.
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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.
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I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.
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I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.
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I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
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If movies generically don't work, you immediately start to pick apart what ingredients contributed to that. If any movie is working, hopefully how it was made will be the least of your concern. You'll only want to have a god time.
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For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
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You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.
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Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.
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I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
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I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.
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