Steven Spielberg Quotes

A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.

Steven Spielberg

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• I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

  

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• I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

  

  Laura Carmichael
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• Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• This can sound as something naive. But if we are together in this union, it's because we choose to be one in many things. That's what makes the European Union experience so challenging and also a model. Why did we do this choice? Because we see that we share a common interest and common values.

  

  Federica Mogherini
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• TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.

  

  Ram Kapoor
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• All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

  

  Adam Gopnik
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• You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery.

  

  Sam Harris
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  • Doubt
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• I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Done
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  • Lot

• There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

  

  Pam Grier
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• I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
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• I prefer doing feature films.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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  • Prefer

• My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty-farty for them, certainly the ones I do!

  

  Samantha Morton
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  • Watch

• In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.

  

  Gary Sherman
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• I am constantly swimming on the margin, neither 100% American, French, nor Lebanese. I am none of those. I am the result of those three. Sometimes it's an asset: no one can put you in a category. That I do not make typical Lebanese, European or American films does not bother me.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
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• I bring values, resiliency, a thick skin, and I'm not afraid to be confrontational. I don't remember anyone before bringing that to the table.

  

  Carl Paladino
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• Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.

  

  Seth Godin
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• If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been pissed off about it, you say, "Well, now you've got to start getting it right." If you get a chance, you really want to cook. And the tragedy is, when you finally feel that way about yourself, about your work, nobody wants to give you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I'm feeling very wanted these days, so there must be something in the air.

  

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• The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

  

  Henry James Sumner Maine
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• All too often, when people think about art in the U.K., they think London. There's some really great work being produced outside of the capital city and I think it is important to stop and acknowledge that.

  

  Ben Eine
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• If someone doesn't like your fiction, it's really insulting.

  

  Ethan Canin
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• A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Values
  • Films
  • Old-fashion