When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.
From Steven Spielberg
When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.
All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.
Lincoln believed in the American people.
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 machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.
I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.
Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.
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