Steven Spielberg Quotes
I still have pretty much the same fears I had as a kid. I'm not sure I'd want to give them up; a lot of these insecurities fuel the movies I make.
Quotes to Explore
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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I have learned to be patient.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I believe women are the glue of everything.
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My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.
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At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.
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Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school.
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I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me.
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I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.
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We were in the car listening to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Keith was saying how he'd love to do some vocals on a tune, and then two weeks later there he was on 'Firestarter'. As soon as I heard the lyrics I knew it was an explanation of himself, totally Keith. It was another element, it seriously enhances the live show.
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I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.
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I still have pretty much the same fears I had as a kid. I'm not sure I'd want to give them up; a lot of these insecurities fuel the movies I make.
