Steven Spielberg Quotes
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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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My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
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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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Unprotected sex just feels better in a Waffle House bathroom.
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The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.
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My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
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I'm not a great man to my children. I'm just 'Pop.' The more involved I am with my kids, it keeps my head flat on top.
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I've learned there are a lot of people that don't want to believe the Holocaust ever happened because it doesn't fit their other beliefs and so they deny it and it makes them sleep better at night to do so. But it makes the Holocaust survivors sleep better at night to know that we've given them a voice.
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I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.
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There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.
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The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.
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The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.
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People have forgotten how to tell a story.
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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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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
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I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
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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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You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.
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For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.
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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.
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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've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.
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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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Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky. Nothing they did was really illegal.