Steven Spielberg Quotes
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I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
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I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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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 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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All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.
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I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
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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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Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. But we can experiment with television. We can do things that are fringe and bring ideas to the table that are offbeat and original.
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I have made almost as many films in England as I have in America. I will come back to England again and again.
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All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
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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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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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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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The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.
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Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray.
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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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Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.
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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 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'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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I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.
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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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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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Actors just need each other to act together.