Steven Spielberg Quotes
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The internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we're part of the medium. The scary thing is, we'll lose our right to privacy. An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.
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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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I think all directors should be animators.
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A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
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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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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 like that the best about DVD: how small it is.
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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'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 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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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 don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.
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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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I love Rambo but I think it's potentially a very dangerous movie. It changes history in a frightening way.
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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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Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.
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Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.
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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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If movies generically don't work, you immediately start to pick apart what ingredients contributed to that. If any movie is working, hopefully how it was made will be the least of your concern. You'll only want to have a god time.
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I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism for that.
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The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.
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Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.
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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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You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.