Steven Spielberg Quotes
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I like that the best about DVD: how small it is.
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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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I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985.
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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'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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It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
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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 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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I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.
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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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Lincoln movie had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.
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It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.
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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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The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.
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I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.
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I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.
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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.
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There is something that you have that no one else ever had ... When you watch Kirk's Douglas performance in anything, in anything he's ever done, you cannot take your eyes off of him. It's not possible to look away from him.
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Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.
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Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.
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Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.
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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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Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.
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I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.