It is a special joy to be in the director’s chair as we start ‘The BFG,’ alongside my long-time friends and film collaborators Kathy Kennedy, who introduced me to this project, Frank Marshall and Melissa Mathison, together with them and Disney, there are many reasons why I am so excited about this joint venture.

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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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From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

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

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All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.

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Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

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Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

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The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.

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It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.

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You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

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When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.

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Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

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Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.

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The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

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When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.

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Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

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People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

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The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.

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The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

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The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.

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I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

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