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"I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.“

-Steven Spielberg

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I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.

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"In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor."

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"When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them."

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"I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back."

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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."

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