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

Steven Spielberg

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Steven Spielberg
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 18
Actor
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Director
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Steven Allan Spielberg
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I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
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My movies more often are told through pictures, not words. But in this case, the pictures took second position to the incredible words of Abraham Lincoln and his presence [...] I was less interested in an outpouring of imagery than in letting the most human moment of this story evolve before us.
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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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I've just always had a personal fascination with the myth of Abraham Lincoln. And once you start to read about him and the Civil War and everything leading up to the Civil War, you start to understand that the myth is created when we think we understand a character and we reduce him to a kind of cultural national stereotype.
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I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.
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I am a very impatient director.
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All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.
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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 to be a director really bad. I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
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I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.
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All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
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Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.
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The person I enjoy working for more than anyone else is George Lucas. He's the best boss I ever had because he's the most talented boss I ever had.
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