Steven Spielberg Quotes
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I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.
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I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.
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Movies principally require the best of everybody, all at the same time, being the best they can be. Not just like five people being the best they've ever been, and 10 people not being the best they could be. It's like if everybody is either doing their greatest work, or the whole house of cards falls apart.
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I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.
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The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.
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I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.
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I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have enough time for my family or my friends. You could put that in the personal life category but it's all one category because I've got to balance my family.
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I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.
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The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.
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I had to get over my fear of running through the world naked and learn to say 'take me or leave me.'
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When you listen, you learn, You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
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I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
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I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
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The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.
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Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.
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Unprotected sex just feels better in a Waffle House bathroom.
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
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I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.
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For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.
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I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.
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I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.
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Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made.
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The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.
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I've been told that I'm a very different person on the set than I am in postproduction when the movie's over and I'm editing, in that I get so wound up in the film that I become selfless to the point where I lose too much weight.