Abraham Quote by Steven Spielberg

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own…

— Henry Louis Gates

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to…

— Steven Spielberg

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate…

— Tony Kushner

“To the younger generation," writes Carl Schurz, "Abraham Lincoln has already become a half mythical figure, which, in the haze of historic distance, grows…

— Henry Ketcham

For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who…

— Barack Obama

I've done my share of reading about Abraham Lincoln, throughout my life, and he wasn't always carved in stone. He was a human being.…

— Billy Campbell

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…

— Steven Spielberg

Lincoln believed in the American people.

— Steven Spielberg

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy…

— Henry Louis Gates

There is a great overlap of tragedy that played out through the generations of the Lincolns. That, coupled with the idea that many people…

— Michael Beschloss

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy…

— Henry Louis Gates

I admire Lincoln enormously and I think what's interesting about Lincoln is how he changes, it's not that he held the same view throughout…

— Eric Foner