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01Undated

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

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02Undated

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

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03Undated

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

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04Undated

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.

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05Undated

My first reaction, every time I delve into an episode of history that I don’t know very much about, is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.

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06Undated

Sadly, racial, ethnic, and cultural hatred and intolerance are not just history, they are current events.

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07Undated

He never gave up. And he does that for us

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08Undated

Daddy, are you going to yell at us some more today?'Neary gazed down into her clear, guileless eyes. That was how he looked to her---a yelling machine. And she was prepared to accept more yelling because she loved him.

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09Undated

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

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10Undated

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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11Undated

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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12Undated

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

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13Undated

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

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14Undated

I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.

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15Undated

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

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16Undated

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

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17Undated

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

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18Undated

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

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19Undated

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.

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20Undated

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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21Undated

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

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22Undated

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.

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23Undated

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

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24Undated

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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