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Steven Spielberg
American
Director
Born:
Dec 18
,
1946
About
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
Steven Spielberg
Love
History
About
Lot
Movies
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
Steven Spielberg
Reality
Imagination
Possible
About
Anything
Public
Far
Far Away
Creatively
Appetite
Away
Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to and I see another movie I want to make.
Steven Spielberg
Sky
Once
Month
See
Head
Come
Make
Another
Falls
Want
Movie
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.
Steven Spielberg
Constitution
Together
Responsibility
Country
Back
Presidents
Oath
Bore
Total
Had
He
Put
Fell
Lincoln
Lot
Again
Apart
Swear
Help
Keep
United
One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
Steven Spielberg
You
Director
Yourself
Difficult
Out
Details
About
Volunteer
Being
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.
Steven Spielberg
Future
Time
Great
Thought
Minority
Faster
Would
Had
True
Great Time
Coming
Than
Report
Any
Us
Creating
I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
Steven Spielberg
Sky
Living
Once
Month
Dream
See
Head
Come
Make
Another
Falls
Want
Movie
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.
Steven Spielberg
Technology
Digital
Analog
Only
Animation
Performance
Motion
Era
Capture
Thing
My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute businessman.
Steven Spielberg
Clouds
Too Much
Think
Too
Astute
Head
Gotten
Being
Much
Businessman
Credit
You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change; you change.
Steven Spielberg
Me
You
Change
Looking
Whatever
Project
Inside
Know
Becomes
Am
Much
Really
Working
Film
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
Steven Spielberg
Director
Fate
Sometimes
Destiny
More
Casting
Point
Point Of View
Talent
Than
Skill
View
We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with seeing if there's a crazy writer out there who agrees with us and can take it to a crazy network and somehow bring something that's a little bit daft and edgy to life.
Steven Spielberg
Life
Crazy
Nothing
Bit
Laughed
Out
Seeing
Somehow
Something
Network
Writer
Take
Wrong
Idea
Feel
Edgy
Get
Little
Little Bit
Might
Us
Who
Agree
Daft
Bring
When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.
Steven Spielberg
Live
Tell
Terror
Story
I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be phenomenally successful, because I had already made movies like that before and they offered no challenge to me. I don't need my ego to be reminded.
Steven Spielberg
Me
Ego
Challenge
Made
Before
Down
Harry
Harry Potter
Spider-Man
Would
Would-Be
Potter
Had
Knew
Reminded
Like
Because
Offered
Movies
Turned
Successful
Phenomenally
Two
Need
I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
Steven Spielberg
Day
Sunday
Direct
Rather
Than
Any
Produce
Twice
I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
Steven Spielberg
Science
Science Fiction
Cecil
Want
Fiction
I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
Steven Spielberg
Smell
Through
Like
Knowing
Camera
Going
Just
Film
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
Steven Spielberg
Work
Today
Art
Book
Worth
Try
Think
East
Solve
Any
Middle
Movie
Middle East
Certainly
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.
Steven Spielberg
Myself
Outside
Never
Part
Majority
Comfortable
Because
Felt
Always
Friends
Momentum
Lives
Awkward
Shy
You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.
Steven Spielberg
Dreams
You
Will
Collective
Imagination
Dreaming
More
Unconscious
Know
Years
Than
Done
Create
Planet
Many
Even
Ever
Imagine
I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something you probably don't know about me. I've hated the taste since I was a kid.
Steven Spielberg
Life
Me
You
Coffee
Kid
Hated
Entire
About
Entire Life
Something
Drink
Drink Coffee
Never
Had
Since
Know
Cup
Taste
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
Steven Spielberg
Good
Become
Enough
Dangerously
Out
Tell
Direct
Good Story
Part
Like
Look
Involved
Becoming
Go
Decide
Story
I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.
Steven Spielberg
Schedule
Children
Want
Movies
Really
Show
I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.
Steven Spielberg
Love
Herd
Seven
Kids
Individuals
Children
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.
Steven Spielberg
Me
You
Astonishing
Frank
Scams
Component
Directing
Had
Divorce
Catch
Most
Principally
Because
Were
Heard
Did
Committed
Ever
Things
Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, factual documents.
Steven Spielberg
Because
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