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Steven Spielberg is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter known for shaping modern cinema. His films, such as "Jaws," "E.T.," and "Schindler’s List," have had a profound cultural and artistic impact. He continues to influence the movie industry with his storytelling and innovation. Here are 187 of his quotes:

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. (Steven Spielberg)
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents. View quote
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I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt. View quote
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For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero. View quote
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I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up. View quote
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All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me. View quote
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There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny what is not true. View quote
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I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them. View quote
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In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era. View quote
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I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me. View quote
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I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot. (Steven Spielberg)
I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. You're allowed to be. View quote
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'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back. View quote
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The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation. View quote
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I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games. View quote
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The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck. View quote
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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. View quote
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I would love to do a musical. I would love that. I would have to find the right book, the right story, but some day I'm going to make one. I would really like to go off and direct a musical. That's what I would really like to do when I grow up. View quote
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I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China. View quote
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In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor. View quote
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Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for a decade and a half, I probably would still have made some of the same choices for movies that I've made. (Steven Spielberg)
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before. View quote
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My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues. View quote
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The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first ‘Jurassic Park,' which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That's the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D. View quote
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I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard. View quote
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Photo: Romain DUBOIS, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: American Director
Born: December 18, 1946
Quotes count: 187
Wikipedia: Steven Spielberg

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