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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: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 18
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I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical stunt. If a stunt can be done practically and safely, I'd rather do it old-style.
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I just think that the qualities of leadership are unknown even to the leader until he's tested and given a challenge.
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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 a lot of these insecurities fuel the movies I make.
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Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.
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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 it acted out for me.
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Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.
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I think that the perceived downs in my own career come from just managing my time and not feeling that I have enough time for my family or my friends. You could put that in the personal life category but it's all one category because I've got to balance my family.
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