Steven Spielberg Quotes
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The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.
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I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.
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And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
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I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.
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Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
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I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
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I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. You're allowed to be.
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My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.
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The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.
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I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.
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I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.
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Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.
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'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.
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I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.
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Watching violence in movies or in TV programs stimulates the spectators to imitate what they see much more than if seen live or on TV news. In movies, violence is filmed with perfect illumination, spectacular scenery, and in slow motion, making it even romantic. However, in the news, the public has a much better perception of how horrible violence can be, and it is used with objectives that do not exist in the movies.
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I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.
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I guess the greatest cliché we've ever heard, but the most important words spoken, is, love, you know, love your neighbor and, as you would yourself. It's a biblical term, it's important, and it's embraced by every religion and yet it seems to be a far cry from what we're experiencing today.
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The costume the actors wear and if they're in stylized makeup and wigs in a live-action movie let's say, in a big costume drama, even though it does give them a sense of great ambience and environment and they kind of feel like they're in a great court, or if they feel like they're in the old west, or if they feel like they're being chased by hobbits or dinosaurs, it all comes down to the actors looking each other in the eye.
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I think the greatest thing about DVD is the quality of sound and picture; the real estate to put more extras on; and, my favorite point is it stores quietly in very subtle places in your home .
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I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.
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I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
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I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
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It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.
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The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.