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Steven Spielberg
American
Director
Born:
Dec 18
,
1946
About
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.
Steven Spielberg
You
Decision
Think
Back
Way
Right Way
Backing
About
More
Directors
Writers
Concepts
Making
Than
Going
Whether
Interested
Producers
Film
Right
You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.
Steven Spielberg
You
Yourself
Whatever
Relevant
Out
Purge
Come
Make
Intellectually
Going
Movies
Who
Wash
Film
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.
Steven Spielberg
Me
Writing
Tell
Stay
Direct
Supervise
Takes
Make
Am
Years
Hit
Trying
Just
Anybody
Anymore
Movie
Stories
Biggest
Interested
Race
Them
Two
Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to invade Tel Aviv and destroy it; but the Israelis scrambled together an air force, some of it from old Second World War Messerschmidts, and the invasion was halted.
Steven Spielberg
War
Together
Air Force
World
Old
Before
Military
Air
Syria
Destroy
Some
Invade
Invasion
Had
Force
Equipment
Israelis
Tanks
Lined
Up
Scrambled
Egypt
Achieved
Second
World War
Second World War
I quit college so fast I didn't even clean out my locker.
Steven Spielberg
College
Locker
Out
Clean
Quit
Even
Fast
'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.
Steven Spielberg
Character
Director
Back
Kind
Purple
Color
Could
Like
Piece
Tied
His
Hand
Behind
Brilliantly
I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.
Steven Spielberg
Me
Feel
Over
Know
Movies
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.
Steven Spielberg
Life
Me
Director
Job
My Life
Fathering
Kids
Direct
Both
Major
Things
Need
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
Time
Director
Made
Long
Long Time
About
Directed
Through
Takes
Passes
Five
Where
Movie
Cuts
Film
Ever
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.
Steven Spielberg
Death
War
World
Strong
Country
Before
Fighting
Had
Were
Very
Japanese
Belief
World War
World War II
For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.
Steven Spielberg
War
Everybody
Part
Most
Survive
To Survive
Fights
Who
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.
Steven Spielberg
Time
You
Once
Rather
Inventive
Stunt
Practical
Safely
Practically
Makes
Said
Loss
Done
Less
I believe in 3D for certain kinds of films. I certainly believe in using 3D for all things in animation because animation has such clarity and so much depth of focus. It worked great with 'Avatar' because 70 percent of that film is animated.
Steven Spielberg
Great
Focus
Believe
Films
Clarity
All Things
Kinds
Percent
Animated
Animation
Because
Avatar
Depth
Worked
Much
Certain
Certainly
Using
Film
Things
There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.
Steven Spielberg
War
Character
You
Better
Way
Kind
Telling
About
Put
Better Way
Clearly
Test
Than
Person
Going
Middle
Story
Them
Show
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.
Steven Spielberg
Time
You
Made
First
Before
Christian
Back
Sun
Drew
Drew Barrymore
Never
Empire
Look
First Time
Very
Just
Movie
Working
Used
Actor
Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.
Steven Spielberg
Hope
Technology
Noise
Will
Before
Starts
Way
Drawn
Members
About
Only
Remains
Concept
Concerned
Make
Audience
Always
Audience Members
Audiences
Story
Popular
Even
Film
Bells
Bells And Whistles
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.
Steven Spielberg
Technology
Whatever
Way
Telling
Through
Because
Camera
Began
Movie
Stories
Decided
Really
Filmmaking
Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.
Steven Spielberg
Experience
Action
Look
Tracking
Without
Audience
Making
Least
Method
Where
Subtle
Placing
Jarring
Cutting
Choices
I think we need to take responsibility for the things we put on this planet, and also take responsibility for the things we take off the planet. We need to have limiters on how far we allow ourselves to go - ethical, moral limiters.
Steven Spielberg
Responsibility
Think
Ourselves
Moral
Take
Allow
Put
Also
How
How Far
Go
Off
Far
Ethical
Planet
Things
Need
I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's much better watching a movie with 500 people making noise than with just a dozen.
Steven Spielberg
Love
Noise
People
Better
Big
Making
Go
Than
Just
Movie
Theater
Movie Theater
Much
Regular
Dozen
Watching
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.
Steven Spielberg
Attitude
Day
You
Finished
First
Before
Think
Having
Because
Shooting
Movie
Script
Your
Start
I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
Steven Spielberg
Love
Editing
Favorite
About
Parts
Filmmaking
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
Steven Spielberg
Phones
Cell Phones
Our
Our Lives
Inside
More
Tend
Forces
Escape
Offer
Cell
Whereas
Movies
Us
Lives
Bring
Competing
Chance
Two
Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.
Steven Spielberg
Science
Worth
Remember
Seen
First
Feeling
Preaching
Every
Think
Easier
Kind
About
Take
Weight
True
Come
Sci-Fi
Science Fiction
Without
Audience
Always
Been
Ultimately
Any
Celluloid
Fiction
Movie
Them
Us
Warnings
Ever
Level
Things
Alert
I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.
Steven Spielberg
Good
Wait
Somebody
Think
Nutshell
Out
Run
Good Story
Almost
Because
Audience
Always
Go
Story
Theater
Interesting
Tweet
Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.
Steven Spielberg
Alone
History
Social Media
Own
Back
Extreme
Kids
Miracle
My Own
Week
Taken
Over
Look
Years
America
Get
Social
Media
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