Steven Spielberg Quotes
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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 don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
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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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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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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 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 am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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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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All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.
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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 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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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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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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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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I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.
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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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I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.
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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 dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing a movie - I get home by six. I put the kids to bed and tell them stories and take them to school the next morning. I work basically from 9.30 to 5.30 and Im strict about that.
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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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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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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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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'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.