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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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.
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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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Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.
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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.
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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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With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.
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Great artists have no country.
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You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?
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I used to question this for years - what did our kids actually fight for? They would go in the service and go through all of that and come right out to be drowned in a river in Mississippi. I found this hypocrisy is all over America.
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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.
