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When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.

Steven Spielberg

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Steven Spielberg
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 18
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I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.
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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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The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
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She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.
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I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
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I'm not really interested in making money.
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I wouldn't have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.
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I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I'll never make enough films to purge them all.
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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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This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not satisfied just watching television, we want to star in our own TV shows. We want you to discover us and put us in your own TV show, and we want television to be about us, finally.
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Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.
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You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.
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And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
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Twenty years from now, there will still be a square screen, maybe even larger, and people will be sitting in a large, dark space, and they won't know each other unless they bring friends along.
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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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You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.
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