Story Quotes by Steven Spielberg

11 Story quotes by Steven Spielberg

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Steven Spielberg shares eleven quick thoughts on storytelling, each a glimpse into how visual imagination fuels narrative. The snippets feel like a director’s informal lecture.

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'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

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When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.

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People have forgotten how to tell a story.

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The bones of the story of 'War Horse' is a love story. That's what makes it universal.

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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…

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There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to…

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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…

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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…

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I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody…

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I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story,…

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Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts…

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I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.

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I was fifteen, or sixteen. I was in high school. I was spending a summer in California with my second cousins. And I wanted…

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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…

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Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

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The costume the actors wear and if they're in stylized makeup and wigs in a live-action movie let's say, in a big costume drama,…

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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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Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't…

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I've kept the people who've been in my career who I feel are my family. Kathy [Kennedy] had been with me since 1978. Janusz…

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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…

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