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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I've done everything I've wanted to do. I have three children, I have grandchildren, I have books, I did movies, I've directed movies, I've done almost everything I've wanted to do.
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Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
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Basically I have, like, five really close friends - girls and guys. I like being friends with both because you can do different things with both.
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It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.
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I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.
