Steven Spielberg quote: "My film refuses to be a pamphlet. My screenwriter, Tony Kushner, and I were hoping to make it a visceral, emotional and intellectual experience, combined in such a way that it will help you get in touch with what you feel are the questions the film poses. The most important thing about peace in the Middle East is that people surrender their absolute certainty about what's going on."

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do...
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Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies o...
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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
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I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usua...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you l...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to c...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of m...
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I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of vi...
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The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them th...
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I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

So I try to re-invent my own eye every time I tackle a new subject. But it's hard, because every...
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Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for...
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Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little s...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

This whole thing about reality television to me is really indicative of America saying we're not...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural b...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, su...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of vie...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You h...
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I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wante...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I think the key divide between the interactive media and the narrative media is the difficulty in op...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!
STEVEN SPIELBERG

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same pers...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
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I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.
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When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less ab...
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My head's not in the clouds, but I think I've gotten too much credit for being an astute bus...
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The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't gi...
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From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest you...
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When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around...
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Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noi...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because h...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

We all feel that if we have a crazy idea that might get laughed at, there's nothing wrong with s...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I beco...
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I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often lo...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I don't drink coffee. I've never had a cup of coffee in my entire life. That's something...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Naturally, it is a terrible, despicable crime when, as in Munich, people are taken hostage, people a...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives....
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Like, I took no poetic license with 'Schindler's List' because that was historical, fact...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids g...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone ...
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In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelli...
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I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my fath...
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I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and g...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It's bound to try a...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a ...
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I once said that CGI makes you less inventive. At the time I was bemoaning the loss of the practical...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Before statehood was achieved, Syria and Egypt had their tanks and military equipment lined up to in...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies becaus...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I think every movie I've made after 'Indiana Jones,' I've tried to make every single...
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The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to ...
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My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when ...
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The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first 'Jurassic Park,' wh...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I am an American Jew and aware of the sensitivities involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

The Internet has been this miraculous conduit to the undeniable truth to the Holocaust.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytel...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just b...
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I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

We don't demonize our targets. They're individuals. They have families. Although what happened in Mu...
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It [science fiction] really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

All I have to do is pose for a picture and I'm getting married to the person standing next to me.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast...
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I love to go to a regular movie theater, especially when the movie is a big crowd-pleaser. It's ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

It would make people more comfortable if I made a film that said all targeted assassination is bad, ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call mysel...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I feel like I've been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the rin...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I dream for a living.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkwar...
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I hate that people think it's wrong to say you're inspired by Jaws or by Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Yo...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in t...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

This opportunity ... allows all of us to reach out directly to open a much wider door.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

It's great being honored by critic organizations, because so often they dishonor you with bad review...
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War of the Worlds
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Viewing Israel's response to Munich through the eyes of the men who were sent to avenge that tragedy...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

If he picks the right roles and doesn't forget the theater, I think he can eventually be Alec Guinne...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

All of us know that the survivors and witnesses have given us a precious gift whose wise use will bu...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

was looking forward to working closely with the team in Los Angeles.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I expected to see a party animal who was going to reap harvest with all the girls on the set. I foun...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

INTO THE WEST takes place during one of the single most dramatic periods in American history. We're ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

[? The new take: Although the] Transformers ... (The movie) is going to be really steeped in traditi...
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I felt, for the first time in my career, that I was directing a stage production more than a motion ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

These movies are asking sensitive questions about racial intolerance and Middle East politics. It's ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
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Because of how much movies cost, it's dangerous to be experimental on one film after the other. ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I turned down 'Harry Potter' and 'Spider-Man,' two movies that I knew would be pheno...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonh...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist ...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but pri...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell s...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I simply adore 'The Simpsons.' I go to bed in a 'Simpsons' T-shirt.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of su...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

There are so many rumours about so many of us in the public eye. Sometimes it's too hard to deny...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

What kind of a horse?"
"A miraculous kind of horse
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I will never make a movie about any of the events of 9/11.
STEVEN SPIELBERG

It's for people who can't market their own pieces, but who are still legitimate artists, musicians a...
GREG T. SPIELBERG

Sometimes people put too much meaning into things. Liking something for pure aesthetics can be great...
GREG T. SPIELBERG

We want No. 2 Pencil to be informative and provocative.
GREG T. SPIELBERG

We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negati...
STEVEN BIKO

Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands ...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

I'm very fond of the British cinema. I'm a big fan of Martin Campbell and Daniel Craig. I ac...
STEVEN BAUER

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industr...
STEVEN LEVY

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
STEVEN PINKER

I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it loo...
STEVEN ADAMS

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity,...
STEVEN COJOCARU

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel...
STEVEN PINKER

Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street,...
STEVEN SEAGAL

No industry is immune and no occupation is safe. All of us need to begin to think in terms of our ow...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by ...
STEVEN SINOFSKY

I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push ...
STEVEN PINKER

Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get...
STEVEN COJOCARU

Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their ...
STEVEN BIKO

When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching...
STEVEN WRIGHT

Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare...
STEVEN RATTNER

So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological pro...
STEVEN PINKER

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.
STEVEN WRIGHT

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT

Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is...
STEVEN SODERBERGH

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.
STEVEN CHU

You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools fo...
STEVEN PINKER

The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we're so bombarded wit...
STEVEN BOCHCO

The decline of violence isn't a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and univ...
STEVEN PINKER

I was born with this. It's a hereditary genetic condition. This is something you can go your who...
STEVEN COJOCARU

I think there is a way to be formal and elegant and classy, but more modern. Brad Pitt has been chan...
STEVEN COJOCARU

I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things ...
STEVEN TYLER

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...
STEVEN WRIGHT

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you str...
STEVEN WRIGHT

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speec...
STEVEN PINKER

The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalis...
STEVEN PINKER

A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space...
STEVEN WRIGHT

If you cannot peacefully coexist with many different cultures and beliefs, then you should probably ...
STEVEN MAGEE

Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries.
STEVEN MAGEE

There is a dedication to willful incompetence in many corporate government departments.
STEVEN MAGEE

An electrical utility company that blatantly lies to law enforcement about an electrical fraud resea...
STEVEN MAGEE

Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either dam...
STEVEN MAGEE

The USA is corrupt in many areas with law enforcement and utility companies being two of those.
STEVEN MAGEE

There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surv...
STEVEN MAGEE

The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time wher...
STEVEN MAGEE

Many mistakes makes for a very smart person.
STEVEN MAGEE

What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the bou...
STEVEN JOHNSON

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"
The philosopher replied without an insta...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when ...
STEVEN MAGEE

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that...
STEVEN PINKER

A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for ...
STEVEN BIKO

We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.
STEVEN SQUYRES

The police seem to be learning the hard way that the more abusive they are to people, the less peopl...
STEVEN MAGEE

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have com...
STEVEN BIKO

The backbone of the electrical grid is largely massive numbers of steam driven engines that turn ele...
STEVEN MAGEE

Chance favors the connected mind.
STEVEN JOHNSON

Very few people realize that the ionizing radiation levels on a commercial jet airplane at cruising ...
STEVEN MAGEE

The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossibl...
STEVEN MOFFAT

I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
STEVEN WRIGHT

I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop,...
STEVEN MAGEE

The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy ...
STEVEN JAMES

Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thought for a moment longer, then scowled. On se...
STEVEN ERIKSON

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
STEVEN WRIGHT

An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
STEVEN WEINBERG

Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man g...
STEVEN MOFFAT

Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the
initiative and thus com...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.
The Doctor: Believe me... I...
STEVEN MOFFAT

The most deformed AC voltage sine wave that I have seen in my career was at a high altitude astronom...
STEVEN MAGEE

The toxicity of an electrical wiring error is a function of the dirty electricity and the electrical...
STEVEN MAGEE

Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death.
STEVEN MAGEE

When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repet...
STEVEN KOTLER

It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benef...
STEVEN MAGEE

I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parti...
STEVEN MAGEE

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
STEVEN ERIKSON

We're all stories, in the end.
STEVEN MOFFAT

Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.
STEVEN BRUST

When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run ...
STEVEN MOFFAT

He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been ...
STEVEN MILLHAUSER

Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transform...
STEVEN JAMES

When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that...
STEVEN HALPERN

If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
STEVEN GILBERT

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th...
STEVEN WEINBERG

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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