Steven Spielberg Quotes

I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

Steven Spielberg

• Jaws
• Robert Shaw
• Greener Gun

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• I am not a good cue card reader.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Reader
  • Card
  • Cue

• Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Mistake
  • Decisions
  • Congress

• A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

  

  John Lothrop Motley
  • Power
  • Rest
  • Gold

• When I get in front of a camera all my fears and my inhibitions just go away. As a model, I feel that I am acting, too, playing different parts and showing different facets of myself.

  

  Marisa Berenson
  • Different
  • Model

• It was in order to avoid any incorrect assessment on the part of your Government with respect to Cuba that I publicly stated that if certain developments in Cuba took place, the United States would do whatever must be done to protect its own security and that of its allies.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Done
  • Respect

• My job as an actor has inspired generations of children to become doctors. My job as a writer has opened up the minds of millions. My job as a director has produced masterpieces that will be taught in film school for ages.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Up
  • Children
  • School

• Those are the magical songwriting moments, when you have a partner that clicks like that. That's a dream come true, man.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Moments
  • Songwriting
  • Magical

• Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Man
  • Ambition
  • Accuse

• Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Company
  • Consultants

• To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Men
  • Dark
  • Miracle

• You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Support
  • Fire
  • Marketing

• Thrice three protections, Returning to the old places, With a steed used to the field.

  

  Taliesin

• We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.

  

  Bob Dole
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Worry

• YouTube is found footage. It's here to stay, and people will always come up with new concepts that will make sense for found footage.

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Up

• The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we'd shared a bed since they were infants.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Time
  • Children
  • Sleep

• Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head.

  

  Jill Hennessy
  • Work
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• I have no disagreement with the aims of anti-vivisectionists.

  

  Peter Baynham

• After nine or 10 years of being interviewed, you start wanting to team up with the reporter and get the job done.

  

  John Travolta
  • Up
  • Done
  • Job

• When I walk into the room, I own it!

  

  NeNe Leakes
  • Rooms

• So, they had this 40-odd year friendship with each other and with Mr Harwood. So, when I came on it Albert, Tom and Maggie were in the cast. But then Albert wasn't up for it, so he had to withdraw.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Friendship
  • Mr. Harwood

• Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Bird
  • Catch
  • Jaws

• Jaws was still a handsome, big guy. He got the girl. He was my favorite villain. I tried to make this guy endearing somewhat because all he wanted to do was unite his country.

  

  Rick Yune
  • Country
  • Unite
  • Jaws

• I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Jaws
  • Robert Shaw
  • Greener Gun