Steven Spielberg Quotes
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This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
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I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.
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I like that the best about DVD: how small it is.
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I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.
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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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The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing else has ever come close.
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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 have to stay interested. I can't do the same thing over and over again, which is why I don't do - I've made sequels, but it's the movies that are not sequels that I enjoy the most.
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Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.
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I think all directors should be animators.
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I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.
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I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.
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In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.
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There's going to be no more digital enhancements or digital additions to anything based on any film I direct. I'm not going to do any corrections digitally to even wires that show... If 1941 comes on Blu-ray I'm not going to go back and take the wires out because the Blu-ray will bring the wires out that are guiding the airplane down Hollywood Blvd. At this point right now I think letting movies exist in the era, with all the flaws and all of the flourishes, is a wonderful way to mark time and mark history.
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I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.
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It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.
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I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.
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'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.
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I've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and Kirk Douglas is the only movie star I ever met.
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Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.
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I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.
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My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence ... I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.
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With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history telling how it was, and then my imagination is telling me how I wish it had been, but I can't go there, so I have to censor myself. I'm very good about stopping myself from creating history that never occurred, but it's frustrating.