Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg KBE OMRI is an American director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Spielberg is considered one of the founding pioneers of the New Hollywood era, as well as being viewed as one of the most popular directors and producers in film history. He is one of the co-founders of DreamWorks Studios...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth18 December 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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This opportunity ... allows all of us to reach out directly to open a much wider door.
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I felt, for the first time in my career, that I was directing a stage production more than a motion picture. Part of directing is psychotherapy. You're sitting there with a lot of very talented patients, and you're hoping your movie doesn't blow up in your face in anarchy.
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Our hope is that the archive will be a resource so enduring that 10, or 50, or even 100 years from now, people around the world will learn directly from survivors and witnesses about the atrocities of the Holocaust.
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The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.
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People have forgotten how to tell a story.
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I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.
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I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday.
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And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.
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When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
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I think all directors should be animators...
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If I weren't a director, I would want to be a film composer.
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I am a very impatient director.
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You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!
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One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.