American - Director | December 18, 1946 -
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.
Steven Spielberg
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The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
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All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives.
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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.
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There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.
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I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.
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When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.
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The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.
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You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!
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Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.
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Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.
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'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.
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