Steven Spielberg Quotes
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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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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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All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.
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My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
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I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
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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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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.
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Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.
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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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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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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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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 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 can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.
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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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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 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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The way Stanley Kubrick tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.
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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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When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
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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 simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.
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The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
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All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.