Steven Spielberg Quotes
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I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.
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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 love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.
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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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You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!
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I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
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I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in opening up an empathic pathway between the gamer and the character, as differentiated from the audience and the characters in a movie or a television show.
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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 always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .
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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 have always admired him Bergman, and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience...
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Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray.
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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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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 get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don't censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room... I shoot needless footage and then don't use later on in the process.
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In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.
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I like that the best about DVD: how small it is.
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Money to me is not a factor in my life.
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I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy Kennedy had been with me since 1978. Janusz Kaminsky, my cinematographer, has made every movie with me since Schindler's List. Michael Kahn has cut every movie I've directed since 1976 when we made Close Encounters together. Rick Carter has done more than 15 of my directed films as a production designer.
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All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.
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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 love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.
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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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I don't do the running commentary as the movie's playing. I think you should be able to watch the movie without listening to me talk while the movies playing.