Steven Spielberg Quotes About Abraham

Quotes about: Abraham

• My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [...] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.

  Steven Spielberg

  Stories, Incredibles, Moments

• I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Character, Thinking

  "Steven Spielberg And Daniel Day-Lewis Talk 'Lincoln'". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 26, 2012.

• There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.

  Steven Spielberg

  Children, Reading, Fascination

  "Steven Spielberg And Daniel Day-Lewis Talk 'Lincoln'". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 26, 2012.

• There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Strange, Odd

  "Daniel Day-Lewis, Steven Spielberg Share 'Lincoln' Experience" by Lana Zak, abcnews.go.com. November 9, 2012.

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