Want Quotes by Steven Spielberg

14 Want quotes by Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg’s short set on wanting offers a peek behind the camera at what fuels his narratives. Fourteen concise thoughts reveal the creative spark that powers his legendary films.

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

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

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I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

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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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I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie…

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I still have pretty much the same fears I had as a kid. I'm not sure I'd want to give them up;…

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I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie…

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Movies are always in a state of locomotion. You start with a general idea of how it should feel and then you…

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I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I…

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If movies generically don't work, you immediately start to pick apart what ingredients contributed to that. If any movie is working, hopefully…

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This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want…

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The internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will…

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I don't want to quit. I've always said that Clint Eastwood is one of my best friends. I've known Clint for many…

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I don't go through a torturous intellectual process to decide what to direct. I know what I want to direct the second…

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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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