Steven Spielberg Quotes

And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

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• Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • First
  • Show

• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Way
  • Story

• When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Film
  • First
  • Camera

• Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Health

• I have a very short attention span.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Attention
  • Very
  • Short

• It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Philosophy

• Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Growing
  • Space

• Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Truth
  • Lie
  • Cheat

• Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Dream
  • Childhood
  • Sky

• The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

  

  Andy Warhol
  • Beautiful

• That's the biggest shame there is, that L.A. doesn't have a team. I was a big fan of the L.A. Rams, and when they left, I lost interest. Then there was the Raiders, and they left. How they can't have a football team in the biggest market in the world is beyond me.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • World
  • Team
  • Lost

• Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • People
  • Book
  • America

• There are still people, obviously, who are stopping you and want a selfie because they need to justify their own lives by being in close proximity to a celebrity... but those are minor with me. I'm not a major celebrity.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People
  • Celebrity

• Accents influence a performance. If you look at Stanislavski, he says work from the in to the out, and I probably overall work the other way. I find an accent and a mood, and that influences the character massively.

  

  Joe Cole
  • Work
  • Character
  • Mood

• As far as 'Dahmer' and 'Jumanji' are concerned, with both of them, they felt super raw and affecting, but in their own ways. I also thought 'Jumanji' was completely not trying to be anything except what it was, and I found it to be hilarious.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Trying
  • Hilarious

• I wish I was more of a song-and-dance girl. I sang in a show once. I wish I could be in 'Hair.'

  

  Kim Dickens
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Wish

• People say a lot of things about LeBron, but he just keeps having a good mentality and grinding. That's what I try to do, proving people wrong by what I do on the court.

  

  Ben Simmons
  • People
  • Good

• Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Friend
  • Purpose

• I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Never
  • Pink
  • Shades

• I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don't know which way to go.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Time
  • Choices

• All of my life I have asked the question, 'Who would I be if I had grown up in a loving home?' And I have no way to answer it. I don't know if I would be placid and satisfied with whatever is around me - a happy, jolly, sedentary person.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• I'm not proposing that you let the crowd dictate, or that you work hard to fit in. Far from it. I'm proposing that you know the impact your choices are having and act accordingly.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Choices
  • Marketing
  • Impact

• And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Question
  • Choices
  • Producer