Steven Spielberg Quotes
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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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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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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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You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
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A lot of kids only know 'E.T.' from the digitally-enhanced version.
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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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My dad took me to my first movie.
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People have forgotten how to tell a story.
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In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of mystery, of humour and contradictions. It was a gift to us, and now it's a legacy.
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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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Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
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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 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 war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
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I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
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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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I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.
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I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.