Steven Spielberg Quotes

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.

Steven Spielberg

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I grew up thinking you're either a winner in the world, or you're not. I presumed I was not. I had no reason to think I would be, and my inclination is towards self-deprecation. I wish I'd known no one was judging my every move, but I'm still like this!

Jennifer Egan

WorldThinkThinkingWishWinnerUp

I've had students at Yale: my main task with them in drama school was not helping them with their writing but showing them how valuable they were. Because they're ready to give it up and go into teaching or television.

John Guare

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There's things that you just couldn't do with an optical printer. Now, with digital compositing, most of the energy that goes into a shot goes into the aesthetic issues of, 'Is it a good shot or not?'

John Knoll

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.

Aneurin Bevan

PowerPurposeAwayGiveAble

I always like to hang out with whoever's directing and watch what they do. I hang out at Video Village, the area where the directors and the writers and script advisors are.

Miriam Shor

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Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

William James

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I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

Peter Garrett

FaithChosenMakeIssue

I became a Christian within a fundamentalist church. I saw 'A Thief in the Night' on a 16 mm. print when I was in the eighth grade, and I got the whole scare speech from our pastors. 'Do you want to be left here, left behind, for the Tribulation? If not, then come forward.'

Scott Derrickson

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I don't allow Hollywood to define my joy, my happiness, and my peace because you'll be screwed. You have to be very careful.

Tia Mowry

HappinessPeaceJoyYouHollywood

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Thomas Merton

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Health is not valued till sickness comes.

Thomas Fuller

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Many people mistakenly think of farce as broad low comedy. In fact, it's polished high comedy.

Mark Linn-Baker

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