Steven Spielberg Quotes
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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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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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Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.
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Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.
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Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.
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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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I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and it acted out for me.
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The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.
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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 don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.
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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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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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All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.
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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 don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
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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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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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The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.
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Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.
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For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
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The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
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The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.
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I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.