Steven Spielberg Quotes

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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…
• The world would be a poorer place without Doctor Who.
• The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
• In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of…
• I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.
• Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
• The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing…
• I dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing a movie -…
• The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years.
• I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience.
• I basically took something that was extremely erotic and very intentional, and I reduced it to a simple kiss. I got a lot of criticism…
• Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.
• Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic.
• The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.
• There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like,…
• All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.
• Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.
• I had no choice. It was just something that happened. I was always looking for ways to act out, and I got a camera and…
• Movies become living organisms that graduate from a filmmaker's sphere of influence and pretty much look back and tell you how they need to be…
• It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of…

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