Steven Spielberg Quotes
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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 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 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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After a scary movie about the world almost ending, we can walk into the sunlight and say, "Wow, everything's still here. I'm OK!" We like to tease ourselves. Human beings have a need to get close to the edge, and when filmmakers or writers can take them to the edge, it feels like a dream where you're falling, but you wake up just before you hit the ground.
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I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile.
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Twenty years from now, there will still be a square screen, maybe even larger, and people will be sitting in a large, dark space, and they won't know each other unless they bring friends along.
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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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The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.
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I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
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From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
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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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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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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 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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Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
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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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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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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 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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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.
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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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Actors just need each other to act together.
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When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
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I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.