476 Quotes by Steven Spielberg

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    I even get inspired by movies that aren’t very good, because there’s always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There’s good in everything, I find.

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    I wouldn’t have filmed The Color Purple if the book had been a big fat novel. The reason I read it is because it is thin.

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

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    There is something about killing people at close range that is excruciating. It’s bound to try a man’s soul.

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    Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn’t shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.

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    Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood – these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It’s disastrous.

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    I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it’s really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.

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