Steven Spielberg Quotes
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I am a very impatient director.
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I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.
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It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.
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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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The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.
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My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
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I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.
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I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.
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Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.
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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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The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.
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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.
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I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.
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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 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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One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
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I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.
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All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
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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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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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When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
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Movies principally require the best of everybody, all at the same time, being the best they can be. Not just like five people being the best they've ever been, and 10 people not being the best they could be. It's like if everybody is either doing their greatest work, or the whole house of cards falls apart.
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The way Stanley Kubrick tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.
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It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.