Steven Spielberg Quotes
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All of my movies are about how I wish the world would work. I've made very few movies about how the world worked. I could name them on one and a half hands, about how my movies have been very reflective of how the world was exactly. A lot of my movies are really about the way I wish the world was, and that's what this whole art form is all about. It's an interpretive art form.
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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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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 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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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 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.
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All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
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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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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.
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I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
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The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.
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Everybody who works for Amblin Television has to do five jobs.
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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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I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.
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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'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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I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
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The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.
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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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For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.
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Unprotected sex just feels better in a Waffle House bathroom.
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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.'