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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.

~Steven Spielberg

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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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You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.

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The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

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There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

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Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

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I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

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The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.

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Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.

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When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: December 18th, 1946

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