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.
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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I cry at films and TV and even adverts.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.
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There's nobility in hard work, traditional values.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.
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I prefer doing feature films.
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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!
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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.
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In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
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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.
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We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.
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The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.
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There is a hint of despair in the cry of 'I told you so,' an element of disappointment in the apparent satisfaction when idols turn out to have clay feet. The human race, when it thinks it has proved that no one is superior, is partly gratified and partly depressed.
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This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
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When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.
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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.
