Steven Spielberg Quotes

• 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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• In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who’s never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don’t look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

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• If I weren’t a director, I would want to be a film composer.

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• I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.

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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 go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.

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• I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That’s never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad’s 8-millimeter movie camera.

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• I don’t really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.

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• Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

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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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• You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can’t even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.

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• Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

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• When war comes, two things happen – profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

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• When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

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• There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It’s bound to try a man’s soul.

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• There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

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• The public has an appetite for anything about imagination – anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

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• People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don’t have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

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• Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people are killed. But probing the motives of those responsible and showing that they are also individuals with families and have their own story does not excuse what they did.

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• If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.

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Steven Spielberg (56)

Birth:	18th December, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Director, Entrepreneur, Game Designer, Producer, Screenwriter

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