Steven Spielberg Quotes
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I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.
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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'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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For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
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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 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'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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The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.
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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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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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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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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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One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
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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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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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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 missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
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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 love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
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Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.
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When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
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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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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 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.