Steven Spielberg Quotes
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
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I love horror movies.
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I've choreographed all of my movies.
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
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As a child, I did watch some Hindi movies at home with Dad, but I didn't know who anyone was. I wasn't interested, honestly.
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I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.
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I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
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Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
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The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.
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I'm restless. I'm all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It's something that's part of my personality since I was a kid.
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I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in.
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I say a vote for the Democrats or Republicans is the ONLY wasted vote.... By buying into the rhetoric that there are only two parties worth voting for...you increase their power. And with it, you promote the watered-down freedoms and endless government growth that these two parties consisently vote for.
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I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.
