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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.

Steven Spielberg

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Steven Spielberg
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: December 18
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Cincinnati
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Steven Allan Spielberg
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It's still a mystery to me, but even though my mother was like an older sister to me, I kind of put her up on a pedestal.
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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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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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Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
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When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
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The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
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My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.
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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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I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.
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Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
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I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.
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I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.
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This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
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My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.
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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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The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle.
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I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .
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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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I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.
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History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.
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