Spielberg Quotes
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I’ve been offered a lot but I want to stay away from romance, comedies and fluffy work. I met Stephen Spielberg at a breast cancer benefit and he explained that he’d seen me on Saturday Night Live and thought I was ready for a movie. He said, ...
Christina Aguilera
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[Acknowledging that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg originally wanted another actor to play Indiana Jones]: "My playing Indy was mentioned to me about only six weeks before shooting started, but being second choice wasn`t at all offensive. I would alway...
Harrison Ford
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[Steven Spielberg on Bergman] I have always admired him, and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience.
Ingmar Bergman
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In an ideal way, in an ideal world, myself and the director are one. And as you rightly say, in an ideal world, you can`t see the horizon between sky and sea. I felt that the times with Spielberg [Steven Spielberg] on Schindler`s List (1993), we were movi...
Ben Kingsley
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In an ideal way, in an ideal world, myself and the director are one. And as you rightly say, in an ideal world, you can`t see the horizon between sky and sea. I felt that the times with Spielberg [Steven Spielberg] on Schindler`s List (1993), we were movi...
Ben Kingsley
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[When asked what it was like to watch Steven Spielberg direct] "It`s like watching Albert Einstein or Thomas Edison. It`s like watching Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods, any genius you can name."
George Lucas
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[On Steven Spielberg] Steven Spielberg is the only person I`ve come across who fits my criteria of genius. And I don`t throw that word around. Genius is imagination and attention to detail. The ability to achieve to the minutest detail what you perceive i...
Richard Dreyfuss
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[On Steven Spielberg] Steven Spielberg is the only person I`ve come across who fits my criteria of genius. And I don`t throw that word around. Genius is imagination and attention to detail. The ability to achieve to the minutest detail what you perceive i...
Richard Dreyfuss
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I never wanted movies to be an end. I wanted them to be a means so that I could have a decent life -- meet attractive women, go out on dates, live decently. Not opulently, but with some security. I feel the same way now. A guy like Steven Spielberg will g...
Woody Allen
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On Steven Spielberg`s picking actors for the parts: "What really impressed me is that Steven wasn`t only looking for good actors for "High Incident" (1996). He wanted good people, too."
Matt Craven
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl (1983), he said, `I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can`t. It`s the best film I`ve seen since Citizen Kane (1941)`.
Barbra Streisand
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Woody Allen makes Woody Allen comedies and they are all about him. Steven Spielberg likes to tell someone else`s story and it is not only about him. Fine direction such as Spielberg`s is rare. You have to be very confident to direct actors. Too many direc...
Samantha Morton
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Woody Allen makes Woody Allen comedies and they are all about him. Steven Spielberg likes to tell someone else`s story and it is not only about him. Fine direction such as Spielberg`s is rare. You have to be very confident to direct actors. Too many direc...
Samantha Morton
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Among today`s directors I`m of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese [Martin Scorsese], and Coppola [Francis Ford Coppola], even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh - they all have something to say, they`re passionat...
Ingmar Bergman
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It`s not like Steven Spielberg is waiting with a script for me. I don`t think I`ll ever be offered a great international film in my lifetime, so I`d rather be a king here. Moreover, Indian cinema is the greatest in the world. But of course, after spending...
Shahrukh Khan
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(about how he got the role of Gigolo Joe) "Through one of those fantastical phone calls when your agent calls you and says `Stephen Spielberg is on the phone, he wants to speak to you about his next film.` And once you`ve peeled yourself of the ceiling yo...
Jude Law
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Steven [Steven Spielberg] said he was going to give me a second chance, but that he would have me tested throughout the shoot. He said that even if I only started using on the last day of production he`d recast the part and re-shoot everything. He didn`t ...
Tom Sizemore
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Being a movie-maker means you get to live many, many lifetimes. It`s the same reason audiences go to movies, I think. When my daughter Sasha (Sasha Spielberg) was 5 years old, we would be watching something on TV and she`d point to a character on screen a...
Steven Spielberg
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There are certain directors - Spielberg, David Fincher, John McTiernan - who sort of see things in three dimensions, and I was watching their films and sort of breaking them down to see how they laid sequences out, and how they paid attention to things li...
Steven Soderbergh
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I`m a big fan of Gary Oldman - Sid and Nancy (1986), Dracula (1992), Immortal Beloved (1994) - I`ve watched every film he`s ever done. I`d also love to work with some of the old school greats like Mike Nichols and Steven Spielberg. And I think Gus Van San...
Clifton Collins, Jr.
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It is not widely known that one of the finest gun collections on the West Coast is Steven Spielberg`s. He shoots, but very privately.
Charlton Heston
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I watch [Steven Spielberg] movies, and know: Those are fairy tales. I understand what he does. And I make a film on cancer and frogs - however I want that many spectators nevertheless! I find that is a good goal, and I consider it a weakness of mine that ...
Paul Anderson
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I get asked the question so often, I thought it best to make an announcement. I thought long and hard about it and if anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an Indiana Jones film. I love working with Steven [Steven Spielberg] a...
Sean Connery
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When I go on a movie set, I`m learning about movies. I learned 100 lessons a day from Steven [Spielberg]. I always think I might not have this opportunity again, so I try to cram a lot of information into my brain.
Dakota Fanning
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[1982 comment on Steven Spielberg] The movies have changed: there`s now this wonderful storyteller Spielberg making benign movies that are enormously successful, while I`m known mainly for making movies about people shooting and cutting each other up. I l...
Arthur Penn
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[1982 comment on Steven Spielberg] The movies have changed: there`s now this wonderful storyteller Spielberg making benign movies that are enormously successful, while I`m known mainly for making movies about people shooting and cutting each other up. I l...
Arthur Penn
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I would love to work for Steven [Spielberg] but, right now, I want to make it on my own first. I do not ever want to be known as Steven Spielberg`s girlfriend" (in 1977 explaining her decisions on working with her then partner).
Amy Irving
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I would love to work for Steven [Spielberg] but, right now, I want to make it on my own first. I do not ever want to be known as Steven Spielberg`s girlfriend" (in 1977 explaining her decisions on working with her then partner).
Amy Irving
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The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He`s such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.
Max Sydow
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Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.
David Geffen
Source: brainyquote.com
