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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.
Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 18
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Steven Allan Spielberg
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I get very, very anxious on the set. I have a thousand ideas and I don't censor myself. I wind up cutting some of them out in the editing room... I shoot [needless footage] and then don't use later on in the process.
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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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In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.
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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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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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I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.
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For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
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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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Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.
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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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Desperate times require desperate measures. What Lincoln and the Lobbyist for the Amendment and the Manager of the Amendment and himself, what they did to get this passed was not illegal. It was murky, but what they did was noble and grand. How they went about it was somewhat murky. Nothing they did was really illegal.
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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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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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So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because everybody has style. You can't help it.
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All presidents swear an oath to the Constitution to keep this country united, and when the country fell apart, Lincoln had to put it back together again, with a lot of help. But he bore total responsibility.
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If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
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From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
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It [Lincoln movie] had nothing to do with politics. It had nothing to do with holding a mirror up to the way we conduct our business on Capitol Hill. This was meant to be a story, a Lincoln portrait if you will. I think any time is the right time for a very compelling story, any time.
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All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long.
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