Steven Spielberg Quotes
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I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters.
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I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.
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The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.
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My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
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People can relate to horses. Horses, I think, are basically in our genetic history. Horses were part of our culture, part of our collective society, for hundreds of years, and so, the horse is one of the most familiar animals to people of any race or culture or country.
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I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.
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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'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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I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
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I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
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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.
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Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.
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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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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'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.
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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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The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
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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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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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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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All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.
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You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.
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I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.
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Money to me is not a factor in my life.