Steven Spielberg Quotes
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Actors just need each other to act together.
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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 dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
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I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.
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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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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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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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For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
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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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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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I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.
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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've been shooting movies and television shows for now 47 years and I've worked with the best of them and Kirk Douglas is the only movie star I ever met.
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I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.
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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 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 '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.
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Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
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I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
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One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
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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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All of my movies are about how I wish the world would work. I've made very few movies about how the world worked. I could name them on one and a half hands, about how my movies have been very reflective of how the world was exactly. A lot of my movies are really about the way I wish the world was, and that's what this whole art form is all about. It's an interpretive art form.
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When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.