Steven Spielberg Quotes
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I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
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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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People have forgotten how to tell a 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 feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.
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Unprotected sex just feels better in a Waffle House bathroom.
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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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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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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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I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
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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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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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The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.
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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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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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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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I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.
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For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.
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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 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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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'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.