Steven Spielberg Quotes
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Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
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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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For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.
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When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.
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The essence of what it is to be American is the deep moral urge to be free, to freely express yourself and have the right to do so, and to look at all people as equals.
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I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.
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If the movie does well, or it doesn't do so well, some movies get great reviews, some movies don't... that's just part of what I do for a living. I just move through all that; that doesn't ever stop me.
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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 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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I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have enough time for my family or my friends. You could put that in the personal life category but it's all one category because I've got to balance my family.
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When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
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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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One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
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The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.
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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.
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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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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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I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.
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I had to get over my fear of running through the world naked and learn to say 'take me or leave me.'
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My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
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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 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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The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.