Steven Spielberg Quotes

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

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• I got to work with legendary director Garry Marshall.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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• I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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• I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.

  

  Iain Glen
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• I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.

  

  Fede Alvarez
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• Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

  

  Ed Wood
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• I don't have a director. The audience directs me.

  

  Hal Holbrook
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• I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

  

  Lance Loud
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  • Design
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• If you believe that markets operate in Alan Greenspan fashion, then you don't inquire into the details.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
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• The audience has always been my best director.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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• Kabir Khan is that rare director who manages to merge Bollywood formula with a good story.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• I love movies where you can sense that the director risked biting off more than they can chew.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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• You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• I wouldn't want to be just pigeonholed as an extravagant director.

  

  Harold Prince
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• I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.

  

  R. Kelly
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• Mostly, I worked so quickly, I didn't see the details of a photograph until it was printed.

  

  Harold Feinstein
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• I'll meet someone on the street and blurt out my most intimate details. I think everybody secretly - or not so secretly - wants to be understood, and I just want to connect, you know?

  

  Imogen Heap
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• If we have come up with a creative decision and somebody comes up with another idea, you do have to get into the depths of it and ask: "Is it a better idea? Or is it a different idea?" That can be hard. But that's the type of conversation the director and I will have, or as part of our creative groups. So with that in mind, it's hard to keep a budget in line. It's like in life, if you've ever built anything for the first time you're usually better at it the second time.

  

  Brad Lewis
  • Decision
  • Idea
  • Conversation

• You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can't be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean every time, you blame, justify, or complain, you are slitting your financial throat.

  

  T. Harv Eker
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• You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

  

  Esther Hicks
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• I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

  

  Steven Spielberg
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