Steven Spielberg Quotes
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
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If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.
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My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
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Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
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I'm happiest when I'm discussing a script and working with interesting people.
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Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.
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If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I'm so fascinated by them and can't get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.
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The Way to ſee by Faith is to ſhut the Eye of Reaſon: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
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Serpens, sitis, ardor harenaedulcia virtuti; gaudet patientia duris;laetius est, quotiens magno sibi constat, honestum.
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All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.
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My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.
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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
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(on his firing from Two and a Half Men) I would have fired my ass too. Well, maybe not like they did.
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All wars today tend to be netwars.
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I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.
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The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So, for example, if I have to have the mother bring a pot of tea from the kitchen to the living room and serve it to the others, how do I, on a practical level, get everyone into the frame? Any decisions I made about the camera angles or movement came out of necessity, versus any sort of stylistic choice.
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I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
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I am a very impatient director.
