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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE OMRI (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker. He is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era and one of the most popular directors and producers in film history. He is also one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios.

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I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.

Interacting, Kids, Like, Play, Priorities

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.

Attitude, Having, Shooting, Think, Thinking

The only movie that I would ever even consider retrofitting is the first ‘Jurassic Park,’ which I think would look pretty spectacular in 3D. That’s the only one of my films that I would consider doing in 3D.

Jurassic Park, Looks, Pretty, Retrofitting, Think, Thinking

Akira Kurosawa is the pictorial William Shakespeare of our time.

Akira, Kurosawa, Our Time, Pictorial, Shakespeare, William

I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

Camera, Cameras, Frame, Point, Stories, Story

Before I go off and direct a movie, I always look at four films. They tend to be The Seven Samurai, Lawrence Of Arabia, It's A Wonderful Life and The Searchers.

Arabia, Directors, Four, Look, Looks, Samurai

Steve Jobs was the greatest inventor since Thomas Edison. He put the world at our fingertips.

Fingertips, Inventor, Jobs, Steve, World

This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

Hollywood, Movies, Needs, People, Smile

The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and the media is obsessed with business and numbers and studios. . . but filmmakers don't think of it that way. We just go off and we tell our stories. It's the same torture that we adore, it's the same torture that our forefathers endured making movies in the golden era of Hollywood. So, from my perspective it's no different, I'm sure, from the men and women who I admire so much who made the earliest movies.

Adore, Creative, Media, Men, Stories, Thinking

I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape.

Believe, Fun, Oscar, Win, Winning

There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.

1930S, Children, Fascination, Movie, Moviegoers, Reading

I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.

Father, Filled, Growing, Growing Up, War

Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.

Imagine, Matter, Movies, Personal, Sometimes, Subject

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

Down, Two, War, Way

It is not my job to compare my movies. I don't like to compare my films with other movies because I don't really have that perspective. It is an intellectual exercise, but it doesn't intuitively come to me.

Exercise, Films, Intellectual, Jobs, Movies, Perspective

I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.

Change, Des, Jobs, Profound, Thinking

There is no such thing as science fiction, there is only science eventuality.

Eventuality, Fiction, Science, Science Fiction, Thing

If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.

Composer, Director, Directors, Film, Want

I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

Admit, Ashamed, School, Student, Students, Thing

I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.

Book, Books, Movie, Supplement, Teacher, Thinking

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