steven spielberg quotes:
Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
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I am a very impatient director.
STEVEN SPIELBERG
I’ve always been interested in UFOs.
STEVEN SPIELBERG
There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.
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A lot of kids only know ‘E.T.’ from the digitally-enhanced version.
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I even get inspired by movies that aren’t very good, because there’s always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There’s good in everything, I find.
STEVEN SPIELBERG
I simply adore ‘The Simpsons.’ I go to bed in a ‘Simpsons’ T-shirt.
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I’m always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it’s threatened.
STEVEN SPIELBERG
In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.
STEVEN SPIELBERG
There’s nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring ‘Schindler’s List’ to the screen.
STEVEN SPIELBERG
When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.
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When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn’t permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.
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When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.
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All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.
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Lincoln believed in the American people.
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I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG
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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It’s still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
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The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.
STEVEN SPIELBERG
I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.
STEVEN SPIELBERG
Even if I’d had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I’ve made.
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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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One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
STEVEN SPIELBERG
The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents – who we haven’t given enough credit to anyway – for giving us another generation.
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When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I’ve gotten to the point now in my life where I’m serving myself.
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Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
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Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.
STEVEN SPIELBERG
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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