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'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.
Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 18
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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 find you've got a runaway train. You have to race to catch up: the movie is telling you what it wants to become, and when that happens there's no greater feeling.
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One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
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Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.
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I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.
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The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.
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It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.
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My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
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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 in China.
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I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.
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I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.
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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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Actors just need each other to act together.
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Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.
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I'm 62 years old. Am I old enough to win a lifetime achievement award? Yes, I am. Thank you very much.
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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 go outside after they're over.
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A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values.
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I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.
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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 for that.
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I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
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I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have a great imagination and you have to bring it every day when you're working. Your imagination and your skills as an actor are what see you through, not what you're wearing or where you are.
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