Steven Spielberg Quotes
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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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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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For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
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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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The making of the movie and the routine of making the movie is a lot like being in a Spanish prison for five years on a marijuana breakdown.
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When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
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I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.
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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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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'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 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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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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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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Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.
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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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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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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 am a very impatient 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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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 love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
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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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All of my movies are about how I wish the world would work. I've made very few movies about how the world worked. I could name them on one and a half hands, about how my movies have been very reflective of how the world was exactly. A lot of my movies are really about the way I wish the world was, and that's what this whole art form is all about. It's an interpretive art form.
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Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky. Nothing they did was really illegal.