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.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I have a very short attention span.
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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.
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Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I wish I was more of a song-and-dance girl. I sang in a show once. I wish I could be in 'Hair.'
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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.
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I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.
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If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.
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Family is the most important thing in the world.
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Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
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Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project.
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The joy for me of television is the sort of family feeling of being involved with an ensemble - the cast and the crew and the director of photography and the guys in the camera truck - and you're all coming together. There's a great feeling when that is a successful unit, a successful family.
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It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices.
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In my suffrage work, I learned beyond question that the news coming through the great press agencies was colored and distorted; and if this has been done on one subject, it has doubtless been done on others. A good many women, I think, learned a wholesome distrust of press reports during the suffrage struggle.
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“They asked me how I would be paying and I told them that if past experience was anything to go by probably with my life and the thin girl with the thick spectacles reached deep into her soul for a smile and repeated the question.”
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And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
